statesmanship

Noun

Meaning

The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.

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The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. Enoch Powell

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. James Russell Lowell

Statesmanship [...] must consider first the fortunes of the common people. No statesman has a right to risk these fortunes unless he be reasonably assured of success. John Buchan

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

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. Walter Lippmann

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians. Fletcher Knebel

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