What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior's principles to human government.
That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.