Henry Taylor - Statesman Quotes

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The conscience of a statesman should be rather a strong conscience than a tender conscience.

Henry Taylor
No statesman, be he as discreet as he may, will escape having ascribed to him, as the result of interviews, promises and understandings which it was not his purpose to convey; and yet in a short time he will be unable to recollect what was said with sufficient distinctness to enable him to give a confident contradiction.

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It is of far greater importance to a statesman to make one friend who will hold out with him for twenty years, than to find twenty followers in each year, losing as many.

Henry Taylor
A statesman should steer by the compass, but he must lie with the wind.

Henry Taylor
In a statesman's transactions there are many things which cannot be communicated otherwise than by manner without inconvenient commitment or controversy; and that will be the most serviceable manner which can be expressive or inexpressive at pleasure, and be used as a dark lantern to his meanings.

Henry Taylor
Few things will occasion a statesman so much embarrassment as a prevailing opinion that he will yield that to importunity which he ought to proffer to less forward parties upon juster grounds, and that whether he grants or refuses no harm can be done by asking.

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To choose that which will bring him the most credit with the least trouble, has hitherto been the sole care of the statesman in office.

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