There are a few names on the later pages of American statesmanship which stand for notable achievement, more especially in the line of diplomacy, the two greatest of which are those of John Hay and Elihu Root.
That is the position she should occupy, since she has no quarrel with any one; and it is with its maintenance that the statesmanship of the present day is principally concerned.
At Washington he came into contact with the statesmanship and the demagogy of the republic, and, while the former gave him a magnificent reception, the latter quietly and undemonstratively quenched his hopes.
In the days of his activity, no institution in the country furnished so large an element to the practical statesmanship of the United States as did Union.
The conflict in Virginia at that critical time was between Christian principle and wise statesmanship on the one hand, and on the other hand selfish interest and ambition, and the prevailing terror resulting from a recent servile insurrection.
Theirs, then, is a statesmanship which it may be well for the leading men of this land and time to be looking at and thinking of, and its representative man shall be Richelieu.
And now what was Richelieu's statesmanship in its sum?
The second style of statesmanship is seen in the reorganization of old states to fit new times.
Thus far the struggles of the world have developed its statesmanship after three leading types.
The highest works of statesmanship require these three things: Great power in the minister, genius to counsel and support him, enlightenment in parliament to weigh and decide upon his plans.
It may bring about, as a consequence, an integration which will substitute statesmanship for government by mass meeting.
It is manifest how such a course of politics would affect statesmanshipand political leadership.
The public now and again picks out here and there a Senator who seems to act and to speak with true instinct of statesmanship and who unmistakably merits the confidence of colleagues and of people.
Since the war, however, we have come into a fourth period of national life, and are perplexed at finding ourselves denied a new order of statesmanship to suit the altered conditions of government.
Alliance with Germany and Austria was a necessity of statesmanship and diplomacy; but at no time was it generally popular with the mass of Italian population.
Her antagonism against Austria and the Hapsburgs was still unmitigated, but as a practical matter of statesmanship she had to choose between two antagonists--Austria opposing her on the Adriatic, and France on the Mediterranean.
The main evils to which a scientific statesmanship should address itself arise from the incidental conditions under which this dividend is spent--conditions, largely improvable, which at present deprive it of its full purchasing power.
The statesmanship of Moses led him to seize the opportune time for freeing his people from bondage.
The Practical Training for Statesmanshipof Augustus, Gladstone and Lincoln.
Manifestly the ideal of an international tribunal as the basis of a League of Peace is not so novel as some modern statesmanship seems to conceive.
The warlike spirit of the Prussians is the fruit of the statesmanship pursued by their rulers, those Electors of Brandenburg who afterwards became Kings of Prussia.
The care that they took to reassure their London friends as to the pacific aims of German statesmanship proves to us the value they attached, if not to the peace of Europe, at any rate to the peace of the seas.
Yet these faults, even in their worst form, seem trifling in comparison with the disasters of a European war, caused by the whim, the ambition, or the badstatesmanship of an autocrat.
There's an incipient statesmanship struggling there in that rude mass, though it does not as yet get fairly expressed.
It was in that school of Elizabethan statesmanship which had its centre in the Tower, that many a scholarly English gentleman came forth prepared to play his part in the political movements that succeeded.
It was out of that school of statesmanship that John Hampden came, accomplished for his part in them.
Napoleon and Cromwell possessed the combined arts of war and statesmanship to a higher degree than any of their contemporaries.
But here, again, defective statesmanship was followed by failure, and the campaign against Japan closed the Far Eastern chapter for a long while.
German diplomacy has been ridiculed for its glaring blunders, and German statesmanshipdiscredited for its cynical contempt of others' rights and its own moral obligations.
To take due note of this and of like symptoms of the coming readjustment of political and economic forces is one of the primary duties of Entente statesmanship which one piously hopes are being efficiently discharged.
Enough has been given to show the peculiar school of statesmanship according to the precepts of which the internal concerns and foreign affairs of the obedient Netherlands were now administered.
Smuts has the unusual combination of statesmanship with a knowledge of every wrinkle in the political game.
But about the land inseparably associated with the economic statesmanship of King Leopold there still hangs a shroud of uncertainty as to régime and resource.
It was a revelation of Smuts with his ripe statesmanship put to the test, and not found wanting.
To-day the need for statesmanshipis great, and greater still is the need for thorough knowledge of history.
Foster’s “Statesmanship of the Albany Congress” in his Stephen Hopkins (R.
In any case, whatever we may think of his motives, the ability of his statesmanship is beyond dispute.
When the war ends conditions will be such that a new kind of imagination and a new kind of statesmanship will be required.
Conventional diplomacy and conventional statesmanshiphave very evidently broken down in Europe.
Whatever had been their mutual dislikes political or personal, each of them was politically and in his practical statesmanship far nearer to the other than to any other of the competitors.
His reputation for statesmanship must doubtless rest upon the indisputable facts of his career.
Washburn was a man of statesmanshipas well as erudition.
He said he had talked it over with his colleagues and they wanted me to take the presidency of such a body because of my experience in statesmanship and world diplomacy.
We were very much impressed with the enlightened statesmanship of M.
Cardinal de Richelieu's whole idea of statesmanship consisted in making the King of France the greatest of princes at home and abroad.
Duke of Sully, had any notion either of statesmanship or of religious toleration.
While every Anglo-Saxon is justly proud of England's greatness in art and learning, in statesmanship and martial prowess, yet her commercial history does not always reflect credit upon her foreign trade.
It was her humane and unselfish statesmanship which annexed to the gift the condition that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, excepting punishment for crime, should ever exist in that magnificent domain.
The statesmanshipof the New England character, was the greatest statesmanship of the world.
Patriotism must be faithful as well as fervent; statesmanship must be wise as well as fearless--not the statesmanship which will command the applause of the hour, but the approving judgment of posterity.
I hold it good statesmanship at least to divide the responsibility.
They understood the necessity of delay as well as the necessity for statesmanship of the highest quality in dealing with the Cuban question.
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