Statesman Quotes

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

We are muddled into war.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.