Famous quotes containing the words war and/or statesman:
“Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
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