The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.

In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.