Statecraft Quotes

When you look at all instruments of statecraft and how that's pulled together, I think the ambassadors are uniquely poised. - Henry Crumpton

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure. - John Boyd Orr

Suicidal statecraft...the ultimate cause of imperial collapse. - Zbigniew Brzezinski

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. - Winston Churchill

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. - James Russell Lowell

But the standards of statecraft insisted upon the untrammeled claim of each nation to uphold its own view of its rights by force and to build whatever armaments it considered necessary for this purpose. - Arthur Henderson