Crafty men and statesmen will be shown misled by all their elaborate calculations.
They should refrain from making a showy display of their abilities and considering themselves statesmen, but should learn to make political explanations appropriate to different people.
Our task - whether we are citizens, scholars or statesmen - is to understand and manage globalization, doing our best to encourage its favorable aspects and keep its negative consequences at bay.
Throughout the history of Chinese civilization its agriculture and handicrafts have been renowned for their high level of development; there have been many great thinkers, scientists, inventors, statesmen, soldiers, men of letters and artists, and we have a rich store of classical works.
And that we have been betrayed into it by statesmen and orators mouthing catchwords and prejudices," said Melly rapidly.
China produced in its history many outstanding philosophers, thinkers, statesmen, strategists, writers and artists and left us numerous volumes of literature.
Churchill was one of the world's most eminent statesmen.
Other monuments include those of Isaac Newton, scores of statesmen, and Poet's Corner, with memorials to centuries of authors including Chaucer, Shakespeare and Dickens.
He was a surprisingly unassuming man for such a titan among statesmen.
ECONOMISTS turn over the hows and whys of the Depression in much the same way as statesmen once reflected on the decline of Rome or the eclipse of Athens by Sparta.
I have a much higher opinion of British statesmen than to attribute to them an act of that kind.
Since its founding some 360 years ago, Harvard has nurtured a great number of outstanding statesmen, scientists, writers and businessmen, including six of the American Presidents and over thirty Nobel prize winners.
