Was he a great statesman when he entered on the Mexican expedition, and also a great statesman when he abandoned it and his unfortunate pupil, puppet, and victim together?
In brief, Gladstone is not, to my thinking, a great orator; and I do not believe he is a great statesman.
Though his military career was short, and his military situation subordinate, he fully proved that he possessed the talents of a great general, as well as those of a great statesman.
Bred a simple priest, he became not only a great statesman, but a great general.
But he was a great statesman, and aimed to suppress anarchy and preserve law.
It has been said that Alboquerque was a great statesman as well as a great warrior, and no better proof of this can be adduced than his treatment of the Hindu princes.
He brought to the deliberations of the Committee, not indeed the knowledge or the ability of a great statesman, but a tongue and a pen which, if others would only supply ideas, never paused for want of words.
He was not a great statesman, but he was a supremely great administrator, a supremely great master of parliamentary management and of parliamentary legislation.
With many of the qualities of the highest statesmanship he wanted some necessary ingredients of a great statesman.
His own deeds shall avouch him for a great statesman, a great soldier, a true lover of his country, a merciful and generous conqueror.
History then spoke of a great statesman who on a certain day in a certain year, passed a certain most important measure, affecting the interest of a great nation, and consequently of the whole world.
As he left the room, he muttered: "If Kaunitz were not a great statesman, he would be a ridiculous old fop!
It is only once in a century that Heaven vouchsafes a great statesman to the world.
He was an Italian, and has the character of a great statesman, as well as a learned prelate.
He had the courage, the fortune and the talents of a great general, the sagacity, prudence and penetration of a great statesman; but with these and many amiable qualities he chose to be nothing but a common courtier.
It was then hailed with joy as the extinction of a virulent and implacable enemy; but is now often viewed as the fall of a great statesman and a mighty prince, who died in defence of his just rights.
I have no idea that he will ever acquire the reputation of a great statesman.
It was the career of a great statesman, whose statesmanship was first and last inspired, informed and guided by conscience, by principle, and by love of justice.
Said a great statesman, "She is the most perfectly truthful being I have ever met.
And we first contemplated the truthfulness of one of whom it has been said, that she was the most truthful being that the speaker--a great statesman--had ever met.
We thought over the truthfulness of one, of whom it was said by a great statesman, that she was the most truthful being he had ever met.
It is a painful thing to have to record that the closing act in a great statesman's career not only compares ill with what went before, but is actually to the last degree a discreditable and unworthy performance.
He considered, as he once wrote a friend, that "the true object of a great statesman is to give to any particular nation the kind of laws which is suitable to them, and the best constitution which they are capable of.
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