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Statesman   /stˈeɪtsmən/   Listen
noun
Statesman  n.  (pl. statesmen)  
1.
A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. "The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them."
2.
One occupied with the affairs of government, and influential in shaping its policy.
3.
A small landholder. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Statesman" Quotes from Famous Books



... uncle, Colonel Arthur P. Hayne, fought under Jackson at New Orleans, and was afterward United States Senator. Paul was nephew of Robert Y. Hayne, whose career as a statesman and an orator won for him a fame that has not faded with the years. With this uncle, Paul found a home in his ...
— Literary Hearthstones of Dixie • La Salle Corbell Pickett
... ought to have sufficient moral strength to kill me in my sleep when I have reached thirty, so that I might pass from one dream to another. The wretch declined. I threatened to leave him alone in the world, and, poor child, he turned white as a sheet. My dear, this distinguished statesman is neither more nor less than a baby. It is incredible what youth and simplicity he contrived to hide away. Now that I allow myself to think aloud with him, as I do with you, and have no secrets from him, we are ...
— Letters of Two Brides • Honore de Balzac
... similar to, or designed for the same end as, an invention or plan which is actually adopted because it has chanced to suit better the particular conditions of the hour (just as the works accomplished by an individual statesman, artist or savant are usually only a residue of the numerous projects conceived by his brain). This process in which so much abortive production occurs is analogous to ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others
... was John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune (1801-1851), the statesman who did so much for legislative and educational reform in India. His father, John Drinkwater Bethune, wrote a history of the ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan
... eighteenth century; working the social problem out in his flat head with a keenness, a consistency, a grasp of first principles, that would have entitled him to a chair in the institute of moral sciences, and entering the social union with the calm and reasonable deliberation of a great statesman taking a critical step in policy? Aristotle was wiser when he fixed upon sociability as an ultimate quality of human nature, instead of making it, as Rousseau and so many others have done, the conclusion of an unimpeachable train ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley


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