Statesman Quotes

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.
I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.
It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.
On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
I would rather be right than President.
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me.
Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.
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