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1139 Statesman Quotes

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Fool Tell Truth Want
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Agree Carrying Intention Mean
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

America Children Idiots Protects
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

Events Garment God Grasp
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

Laws Making Must Respect
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

After Before Election Hunt
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Blood Day Decisions Great
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Chosen Course Forward Go
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

Inspiring Seen Sight Three
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Being Better Laws Like
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

History Main Main Thing Make
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Declaration Even Polite Politeness
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Appeal Echo Fear Finds
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Between Binding Cease Come
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Christian Civilization Other Possessing
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Anyone Battlefield Before Dying
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Any Class Conspiracy Degrade
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Earthquake Fire Gentle Light
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Certainly Get Might Must
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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Honest Life Nation Only
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Broken Build Children Easier
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One and God make a majority.

God Majority Make One
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Endurance Limits Oppress Prescribed
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Progress No Struggle There
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Degrade That Can Man
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Answer Legs Prayed Received
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Agitation Crops Depreciate Favor
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Any Calamity Dangerous Dangerous Thing
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Causes Rebellion Than Thing
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Appreciate Appreciated Battle Easily
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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Advantage Being First First One
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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Found Know Out Slave
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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Ability Application Consists Done
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
About Ankle Chain End
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Expected Generally Sing Slaves
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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Black Cannot Happiness Man
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Future Make Only Past
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I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

Across Bay Born Could
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Agitation Crops Favor Freedom
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There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

Beneath Does Heaven Him
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That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

Cannot Divine Inhuman Which
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Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.

Crushing Down Effects Experience
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He who stops being better stops being good.
Being Better Good He
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Call Captain Else Fights
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Deceive Integrity May Never
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Nature can do more than physicians.
More Nature Physicians Than
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Going He High Knows
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Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Cheering Going Hanged Much
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Been Flock Glad Government
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Choosing Faithfully Men Notice
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