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«The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.»
«To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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War
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captain, delight, merit, soldier, statesman, The Soldier, The Statesman, war crime
«War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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War
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assassin, hired, hiring, jest, jesting, lawyer, priest, statesman, The Assassin, The Assassins, The Statesman, trade
«What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Action
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anxious, disposition, moral character, namely, statesman, The Statesman, virtuous
«POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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disadvantage, edifices, eel, Eels, organized society, reared, superstructure, superstructures, The Statesman, trembling, wriggle, wriggles, wriggling
«ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Politics
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statesman, The Statesman, wrestles
«The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Belief
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false belief, stability, statesman, The Statesman
«The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.»
Author: Henry Kissinger
(Political scientist)
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Bridge The, gap, statesman, The Gap, The Statesman
«It is not the statesman, the warrior, or the monarch that survives, but the despised poet, whom they may have fed with their crumbs, and to whom they owe that they are now or have a name»
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