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    statesman


    1. He feels the pull of the flash bulbs, like it was seventy-nine, and he wants to stop, wants to make a statement, the statesman, the doting father with a sparkle in his eye, and he is disgusted with himself


    2. Harry reopened a text on the cultures of classical Greece and Rome and set to absorbing the nuances of ideals propounded by this or that philosopher, statesman or general whose insights filled the pages of the volume


    3. What is the species of domestic industry which his capital can employ, and of which the produce is likely to be of the greatest value, every individual, it is evident, can in his local situation judge much better than any statesman or lawgiver can do for him


    4. To judge whether such retaliations are likely to produce such an effect, does not, perhaps, belong so much to the science of a legislator, whose deliberations ought to be governed by general principles, which are always the same, as to the skill of that insidious and crafty animal vulgarly called a statesman or politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuations of affairs


    5. He thought of Alleghenia’s elder statesman and leader, Vincent Hawkins, whose portrait was on the wall


    6. Every man, too, is in some measure a statesman, and can form a tolerable judgment concerning the interest of the society, and the conduct of those who govern it


    7. Greatest statesman of the twentieth century


    8. And if you don"t believe the most serious statesman of the twentieth century, whom can you believe?


    9. A wise statesman of the last century reminds us that those countries that stress equality over liberty have a worse track record in regard to liberty than do those stressing liberty over equality have in regard to equality


    10. Eighteenth century British statesman and namesake of the Falkland Islands (not the Malvinas, as Argentina would have us believe), and let us never forget the American President who in 1982 helped Margaret Thatcher retake them after Argentina invaded

    11. „The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be entrusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself to exercise it


    12. French statesman and author


    13. This staunch anticommunist was vilified by communist sympathizers, fellow travelers, and useful idiots not to mention a number of Conservatives who, as his party‘s Elder Statesman, (properly) rejected his overtures to (Communist) China


    14. At least he carried himself like a Statesman, and reached out to us in a way which our own "leaders" did not for they were nowhere to be seen


    15. As statesman, he


    16. The Eighteenth Century English statesman Edmund Burke, in an essay “On the Sublime and Beautiful,” also found excitement in contemplation of the Sublime


    17. What a statesman I am


    18. It was Marcus Cicero, a Roman philosopher and statesman who incouraged his


    19. He refers to himself as a “stateless statesman


    20. all that was a great statesman which American children today will never hear about

    21. Quintus Fabius was a Roman statesman and general who harassed Hannibal’s army by stealth and guerrilla warfare without risking a pitched battle


    22. With his fist wavering in midair, a look of excruciating pain came into the eyes of the old statesman


    23. The Mahachohan is the type of the Statesman, the great Organizer, though


    24. As an elder statesman in our world, Clemens has a great deal of authority but it was not sufficient to dissuade those that lead us


    25. Winston Churchill, legendary statesman and pigeon perch, and turned back to


    26. Momen was a man of the people whose heroes were statesman Luis Muñoz Marín and Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr


    27. He was an author, statesman, and civil rights leader


    28. He had become a competent statesman, an


    29. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events


    30. You, who told me of visiting the war-fields on Kilimanjaro, have the makings not only of a historian but a statesman

    31. I thought that you, as a budding historian and statesman would be interested in what I was saying last evening


    32. Churchill exerted pressure on the Foreign Office to send a favourable reply: 'All possible consideration should be given to this very faithful and courageous statesman


    33. His emergence as a Polish statesman of mark is significant in the history of the Polish government during the Second World War


    34. His subject was the foremost Polish statesman of independent of the Second Republic, 1918-1939


    35. Famous statesman, businessman and inventor, Ben Franklin found Christian dogma unintelligible and avoided Christian assemblies from early in life


    36. The longer his tenure, the more likely he is to become Europe's elder statesman


    37. Vajpayee was seen as a statesman in the Nehruvian mould; Advani had been pigeonholed as a Hindutva ideologue


    38. A statesman or orator would have called up the memory of Pericles or Demosthenes


    39. It was an unprecedented invite and a diplomatic coup—India’s new prime minister was making a case on day one itself to position himself as a statesman and leader of the South Asian region


    40. We see the fulfilment of those words at this very day along the whole valley of the Nile, and every statesman in Europe knows it to his sorrow

    41. " Will anyone tell me there is no inward danger, when the real presence, and the Romish confessional, and ecclesiastical lawlessness, and Home Rule, are quietly tolerated on one side, and the atonement, and Christ's divinity, and the inspiration of Scripture, and the reality of miracles, are coolly thrown overboard on the other? Will anyone tell me there is no outward danger, when infidels, Papists, and Dissenters are hungering and thirsting after the destruction of the Establishment, and compassing sea and land to accomplish their ends?�What Z no danger, when myriads of our working classes never enter the walls of our Church, and would not raise a finger to keep her alive, while by household suffrage they have got all power into their hands! What! no danger, when the Irish Church has been disestablished, the Act of Union has been trampled underfoot, Protestant endowments have been handed over to Papists, the thin edge of the wedge for severing Church and State has been let in, and the statesman who did all this is still alive, and thought by many to be infallible


    42. "The cure, therefore, of political ills is knowledge of the good life, and the statesman is he who has such knowledge, for that alone can give men what they are always seeking


    43. saviour, or even a wise statesman skilfully shaping the destiny of his


    44. The 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) was a British soldier and statesman


    45. He also reminded him how he would no longer be a statesman and politician of the highest rank


    46. 'Do we have a real Statesman, rather than a career Politician, to do


    47. Benjamin Franklin, American statesman and scientist, lived by a code of ethics that included thirteen virtues


    48. counsel he always received from this elder statesman


    49. The city was named after the statesman who, with great perspicacity, recognised Alaska's potential and strategic importance before anyone else


    50. You meet some great statesman, and he does not seem nearly so wise as












































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    Synonyms for "statesman"

    national leader solon statesman diplomat bureaucrat administrator legislator

    "statesman" definitions

    a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs