Statesman Quotes

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
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