Revolutionary War Statesman

Famous quotes containing the words war and/or statesman:

    “Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,
    That from the nunnery
    Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind
    To war and arms I fly.”
    —Richard Lovelace (1618–1658)

    “A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead ten or fifteen years.”
    —Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)