| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Hamilton | Learn to think continentally. |
| Alexander Smith | If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness. |
| Alexander Pope | Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart, His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd, All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd. |
| Alexander Pope | Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart, His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd, All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd. |
| Franceso Guicciardini | Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. |
| George Washington | 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world--so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it. |
| Joseph Chamberlain | Learn to think impartially. |
| Sir William Edward Goschen | I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury. |
| Sir Henry Wotton | An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. |
| Sir Henry Wotton | Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. |
| Charles Churchill | No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains. |
| Edmund Burke | A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would by my standard of a statesman. |
| George Bernard Shaw | The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. |
| James Russell Lowell | Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,entangling alliances with none. |
| Unattributed Author | The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of France and Great Britain. |
| Unattributed Author | If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best compromise. |
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