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The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of
France and Great Britain.
[Fr., La cordiale entente qui existe entre le gouvernement
francais et celui de la Grande-Bretagne.]
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Le Charivari, review of a speech by Guizot, Jan. 1, 1844
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If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial
agreement seems to us to be the best compromise.
[Fr., Si l'on n'a pas de meilleurs moyen de seduction a lui
offrir, l'entente cordiale nous parait fort compromise.]
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Le Charivari (vol. XV, no. 3, p. 4), referring to the ambassador of Morocco, then in Paris (1846)
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It is strange so great a statesman should
Be so sublime a poet.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: Richelieu (act I, sc. 2)
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken
together, would by my standard of a statesman.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Learn to think impartially.
Author: Joseph Chamberlain
Source: in a speech at Guildhall, Jan. 19, 1904
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No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains
To tax our labours and excise our brains.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: Night (l. 271)
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The people of the two nations [French and English] must be
brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's
wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of
language and race. It is God's own method of producing an
entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.
Author: Richard Cobden
Source: Letter to M. Michel Chevalier, Sep., 1859
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I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to
give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.
Author: Rt. Hon. Sir William Edward Goschen
Source: in Parliament
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Spheres of influence.
Author: Lord G.G. Leveson-Gower Granville
Source: a version of his "spheres of action" phrase found letter to Count Munster, Apr. 29, 1884
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Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
[It., Gli ambasciadori sono l'occhio e l'orecchio degli stati.]
Author: Franceso Guicciardini
Source: Storia d'Italia
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Learn to think continentally.
Author: Alexander Hamilton
Source: paraphrase of his words in a speech to his American countrymen
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Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all
nations--entangling alliances with none.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: in his first inaugural address
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Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: The Biglow Papers--Mason and Slidell
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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.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays (ep. I, l. 82)
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere,
In action faithful, and in honour clear;
Who broke no promise, served no private end,
Who gained no title, and who lost no friend,
Ennobled by himself, by all approved,
And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays--To Hamilton (epistle V, l. 67)
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It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have
learned to think nationally.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Source: Builders of the State
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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or
false.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Everybody's Political What's What
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If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.
Author: Alexander Smith
Source: Dreamthorp--On the Writing of Essays
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And lives to clutch the golden keys,
To mould a mighty state's decrees,
And shape the whisper of the throne.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: In Memoriam (pt. LXIII)
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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.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: To the Queen (st. 8)
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Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the
emergency, and cave in the emergency's head.
Author: Artemus Ward (pseudonym of Charles Farrar Browne)
Source: Things in New York
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'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.
Author: George Washington
Source: in his farewell address
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Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?--Why quit
our own to stand upon foreign ground?--Why by interweaving our
destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and
prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship,
interest, humour or caprice?
Author: George Washington
Source: in his farewell address
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An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the
commonwealth.
[Lat., Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendem rei
publicae causae.]
Author: Sir Henry Wotton
Source: in the autograph album of Christopher Fleckamore (1604)
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Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.
Author: Sir Henry Wotton
Source: advice to a young diplomat
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