Definition of Statesman

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Statesman

A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.

One occupied with the affairs of government, and influental in shaping its policy.

A small landholder.

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Statesman Quotations

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt

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.
Aristotle

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
Charles de Gaulle

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Harry S. Truman

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Indira Gandhi

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler Yeats

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
Otto von Bismarck

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm

Statesman Translations

statesman in German is Staatsmanns, Staatsmann
statesman in Spanish is estadista

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