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Letter "S" » statesmen
«If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.»
«Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.»
«No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.»
«Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn»
«An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.»
«PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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«Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.»
«In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.»
«A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Hobgoblin
«A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.»