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• A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years. -- Harry S. Truma
• A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation.
  A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. -- Georges Pompidou...
• Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. -- Bob Edward
• Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.
  -- Thomas B. Reed...
• There is a difference between a statesman and a politician.
  The difference is that I agree with the statesman....
• The statesman shears the sheep, the politician skins them.
• One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.
  -- Thomas B. Reed...