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Letter "S" » statesman
«Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.»
«Like almost all others began with metaphysical discussions. The theory has advanced but the practical science is still in its infancy and the modern statesman is constantly short of facts on which he can base his speculations.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
advanced, almost all, discussions, infancy, modern science, speculations, statesman
«My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.»
«Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| Keywords:
delinquent, delinquents, Reporters, statesman
«Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.»
«QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.He extracted from his quiver, Did the controversial Roman, An argument well fitted To the question as submitted, Then addressed it to the liver, Of the unpersuaded foeman. --Oglum P. Boomp»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Aboriginal, addressed, ancient Romans, extracted, fitted, foeman, lighter, lighters, portable, quiver, quivering, quivers, roman, sheath, statesman, submitted, unpersuaded
«It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.»
«That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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Politicians
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curried, curries, curry, esteemed, fawn, fawning, fawns, gratifying, indulges, presentiment, statesman
«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.»
«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»
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