In every era, humanity produces demonic individuals and seductive ideas of repression. The task of statesmanship is to prevent their rise to power and sustain an international order capable of deterring them if they do achieve it. - Henry Kissinger
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past. - Will Durant
To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. - Theodore Roosevelt