The function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
Enoch Powell 20/04/1968
Category: Statesmen & Statesmanship
The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.
Benjamin Disraeli 1834
On being passed over for office when Peel became PM in 1834.
Category: Statesmen & Statesmanship
If you carry this resolution and follow out its implications...you will send a Foreign Secretary, whoever he may be, naked into the conference chamber...And you call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
Aneurin Bevan 1960
Category: Diplomacy, Party Conferences, Statesmen & Statesmanship, Nuclear Disarmament
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai Stevenson
Category: Statesmen & Statesmanship, Politicians (as a species)
