Statesmanship - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?--Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?--Why by interweaving our ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57857<![CDATA[An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. [Lat., Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57858<![CDATA[Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57859<![CDATA[The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57851<![CDATA[If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57852<![CDATA[And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57853<![CDATA[And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57854<![CDATA[Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the emergency, and cave in the emergency's head. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57855<![CDATA['Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world--so far, I mean, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57856<![CDATA[I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57842<![CDATA[Spheres of influence. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57843<![CDATA[Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. [It., Gli ambasciadori sono l'occhio e l'orecchio degli stati.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57844<![CDATA[Learn to think continentally. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57845<![CDATA[Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57846<![CDATA[Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57847<![CDATA[Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart, His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57848<![CDATA[Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57849<![CDATA[It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57850<![CDATA[If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57836<![CDATA[It is strange so great a statesman should Be so sublime a poet. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57837<![CDATA[A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would by my standard of a statesman. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57838<![CDATA[Learn to think impartially. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57839<![CDATA[No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57840<![CDATA[The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57841<![CDATA[The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of France and Great Britain. [Fr., La cordiale entente qui existe entre ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57835