Word: statesmanship
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Even if the charges against Gladstone are true, what of it? Mr. Gladstone's morals did not affect his statesmanship; they are unimportant, for his statesmanship is what lives today. It is a characteristic of petty minds merely to seize what they can understand; and it seems that hundreds of petty minds must be writing biography today. Those that are afflicted with a conscience argue that their dissections are merely application of the scientific method in the search for truth. But there is truth and Truth. It is truth to say that Walt Whitman had perhaps half a dozen illegitimate...
...Born at Florence in 1469 at the apogee of Florentine glory under Lorenzo de Medici ("The Magnificent"), Niccolo Machiavelli remains the most celebrated commentator on the brilliant and ruthless statesmanship of the Borgia, Sforza and Medici. When the Prince was translated into English many an Anglo-Saxon was appalled that so many truths about the baseness of men and how to play upon it should ever have been set down in type. Machiavelli was suspected by simple souls of having been the devil himself, and the adjective "Machiavellian" was introduced into English with the connotation "diabolic." Machiavellian maxims...
...expose of the national prejudices. It is strange, however, that shades of the Boston tea party should create eternal disturbance which even alliance in a World War should not destroy. The situation is another valid reason for the entire exclusion of sentiment and vague memories from the realm of statesmanship; and that is the greatest problem for any International court...
Estimate. "With the details of business the President was not intimately acquainted . . . but he had other tremendous, valuable powers. ... I have not been greatly impressed by the capacity of the practical businessman for statesmanship . . . the President was strikingly selfless . . . habitually took the long view . . . played for the verdict of history...
Russia a great admiration for western civilization, for grottoes, frangipani and waterclocks; he brought back a mind homesick for the kindnesses of French gentlewomen, and brightened with an understanding of French statesmanship...