#statesmanship

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship. ↗

— John Grierson

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

— Milton Friedman

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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. ↗

— Elizabeth II

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