With us, our Priests are Administrators of all Business, Art, and Science; Directors of Trade, Commerce, Generalship, Architecture, Engineering, Education,
Statesmanship, Legislature, Morality, Theology; doing nothing themselves, they are the Causes of everything worth doing, that is done by others.
On the march Tars Tarkas, through his remarkable ability and
statesmanship, enlisted fifty thousand more warriors from various hordes, so that, ten days after we set out we halted at midnight outside the great walled city of Zodanga, one hundred and fifty thousand strong.
Think of them, the toilers, the oppressed, God's children, groaning under the iniquitous laws of generations of evil
statesmanship. It is the dawn of their new day, their faces are turned to you.
It is undeniable that but for the desire to be where Dorothea was, and perhaps the want of knowing what else to do, Will would not at this time have been meditating on the needs of the English people or criticising English
statesmanship: he would probably have been rambling in Italy sketching plans for several dramas, trying prose and finding it too jejune, trying verse and finding it too artificial, beginning to copy "bits" from old pictures, leaving off because they were "no good," and observing that, after all, self-culture was the principal point; while in politics he would have been sympathizing warmly with liberty and progress in general.
The desire of society for the statesman's advice is taken for granted, Plato in the Republic says that a good constitution is only possible when the ruler does not want to rule; where men contend for power, where they have not learnt to distinguish between the art of getting hold of the helm of state and the art of steering, which alone is
statesmanship, true politics is impossible.
You have very great virtues; I am the first, I hope, to admit that; but I have never met a woman who even saw what is meant by
statesmanship. I am going to make you still more angry.
Because the Circumlocution Office went on mechanically, every day, keeping this wonderful, all-sufficient wheel of
statesmanship, How not to do it, in motion.
* Sept 9, 6 p.m., SIU School of Law Auditorium: Senate Historian Betty Koed, "
Statesmanship in the U.S.
Summary: Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Aug 24 (ANI): Expressing profound grief over the demise of former Finance Minister and BJP stalwart Arun Jaitley, former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said here on Saturday that Jaitley transformed politics into
statesmanship and
statesmanship into humaneness.
There were two main keys to Jihisnnah's successful
statesmanship: a rational approach to politics, and a keen knowledge of objective realities, however awkward or complex.
Beyond leadership is
statesmanship when a nation looks for statesmen with the acumen to address local, national and international issues beyond set, standard and stereotyped leadership through innovative ideas, insights and initiatives and with better emotional maturity, seriousness of purpose and penetrative thinking.