To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.
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.
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.
I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.
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.
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of 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.
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.