statesmanship, n.All

Statesmanship is about getting the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

Statesmanship is housekeep ing on a great scale.

Statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Statesmanship is harder than politics in that, while politics is the art of getting along with people, statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Statesmanship is the conduct of foreign affairs that tries to cure the conflicts which its statesmen create.

Statesmanship is successful crawling and kicking.

Statesmanship is the art of understanding and leading the masses, or the majority. Its glory is to lead them, not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.