Quotes by Statesmen

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement
George Bancroft
For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.
Thomas More
All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.
Seneca
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Francis Bacon
What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
Seneca
What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics.
Edmund Burke
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Thomas More
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him and that all merely exists for his sake.
Goethe
The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.
Francis Bacon
Never despair but if you do work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
This world's a bubble.
Sir Francis Bacon
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis Bacon
We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
Goethe
Love of bustle is not industry.
Seneca
Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.
Goethe
When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place.
Goethe
Everyone hears only what he understands.
Goethe
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.
Edmund Burke
The society of women is the foundation of good manners.
Goethe
The wisdom of our ancestors.
Edmund Burke
Wisdom is only found in trudi.
Goethe
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
Goethe
If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself.
Lord Chesterfield
The sun also shines on the wicked.
Seneca
Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.
Sir Francis Bacon
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
Otto von Bismarck
War never leaves where it found a nation.
Edmund Burke
(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.
Otto von Bismarck
Let us not be deceived - we are today in the midst of a cold war.
Bernard Baruch
Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.
Goethe
Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.
Sir Francis Bacon
The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before.
Francis Bacon
Vice can be learnt even without a teacher.
Seneca
Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.
Daniel Webster
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor and this I know that where law ends there tyranny begins.
Lord Chatham
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
Seneca
Time is the wisest counselor.
Pericles
Seize time by the forelock.
Pittacus of Mitylene
Know the true value of time snatch seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield
I recommend you to take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
Lord Chesterfield
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke
Time discovered truth.
Seneca
You cannot plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless you lost the good that lay within your grasp.
Francesco Guicciardini
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other.
Sir Francis Bacon
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke
There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confession.
Daniel Webster
The sun shines even on the wicked.
Seneca
There is always room at the top.
Daniel Webster
Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Failure changes for the better success for the worse.
Seneca