Statesmanship Quotes

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.