Voorbeelden van statesman

• They were both exceptionally learned statesmen and consummate rhetoricians.

• But statesmen with military experience remained worried about the nation's state of preparedness.

• This was the lesson of the twentieth century; statesmen who believed in clear-cut power politics were stuck back in the nineteenth.

• As international statesmen they lacked interest in social and economic policy, and seemed also to be caught in a time-warp of imperial illusions.

• We have not only mathematicians becoming philosophers, but astrologers becoming experimentalists, statesmen becoming naturalists, and alchemists becoming entrepreneurs.

• The books reviewed here show that there are still many more facets of this most versatile of statesmen to be studied and interpreted.

• Similarly, history was, until the 19th century, primarily an account of the actions of kings, statesmen, generals and other luminaries.

• If statesmen fail to be far-sighted or maintain a vision of the future, we may be deprived by foreign countries of remaining profits.