quotes by Statesman Quotes

“If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”

“An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.”

“Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.”

“The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.”

“Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.”

“We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.”

“Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.”

“Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.”

“The great theatre for virtue is conscience.”

“I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.”

“A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.”

“You don't know what you can get away with until you try.”

“Display is as false as it is costly.”

“Don't overload Gratitude; if you do, she'll kick.”

“Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.”

“To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.”

“Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.”

“We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.”

“Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.”

“Trust is the essence of Leadership.”

“Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.”

“When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!”

“England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.”

“All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.”

“He that is rich need not live sparingly,and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.”

“He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.”

“The art of government is not to let me grow stale.”

“The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.”

“Handle your tools without mittens.”

“It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.”

“Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.”

“In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.”

“The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.”

“As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.”

“The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.”

“It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.”

“Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.”

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

“The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.”

“The Army will take its lessons learned. They're excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.”

“A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”

“A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.”

“Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.”

“My worthy friend, gray are all theoriesAnd green alone Life's golden tree.”

“I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home.[Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]”

“One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.”

“The true guide of life is to do what is right.”

“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.”

“Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.”

“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”