Kindness a crime! Kindness is omnipotent for good, more powerful than gunpowder or canon. Kindness is statesmanship. Kindness is the highest statesmanship of heaven itself. The thunders of Sinai do but terrify and distract; alone they accomplish little; it is the kindness of Calvary that subdues and pacifies. What shall I say of this man? He is no theoriest; he is no reformer; I have looked over his life. He has ever walked in beaten paths, and by the light of, the Constitution.英文原著 · 《History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson》
-- St. Guizot: Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, French statesman and historian, b. 1787, d. Montalembert: Charles Forbes Rene, Comte de Montalembert, French statesman, orator, and political writer, b. 1810, d. Guizot receives Montalembert: i.e., on purely conventional grounds.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
Bok saw with this disposition that, as he had hoped, the avenue of favorable approach to Mr. Gladstone had been kept open. The next summer Bok again visited Hawarden, where he found the statesman absorbed in writing a life of Bishop Butler, from which it was difficult for him to turn away. He explained that it would take at least a year or two to finish this work. Bok saw, of course, his advantage, and closed a contract with the English statesman whereby he was to write the twelve autobiographical articles immediately upon his completion of the work then under his hand.英文原著 · 《The Americanization of Edward Bok》
"Sire," said the chancellor, quietly, "princes are not assassinated these days. Our worry is perhaps all needless. The prince is young, and sometimes youth flings off the bridle and runs away. But he loves her Highness, and the Carnavians are not fickle."
The prelate and the statesman had different ideas in regard to the peasant girl. To the prelate a woman was an unknown quantity, and he frowned. The statesman, who had once been young, knew a deal about woman, and he smiled. "Sometimes, my friends," said the king, "I can see beyond the human glance. I hear the crumbling of walls.英文原著 · 《The Puppet Crown》
``What!'' said the Hon. Sam, rising to his feet, his eyes twinkling and his mask of humor on again; ``sees this masked springal''--the Hon. Sam seemed much enamored of that ancient word--``no maid so fair that he will not beg from her the boon of colors gay that he may carry them to victory and receive from her hands a wreath therefor?'' Again the Knight of the Cumberland seemed not to know that the Hon. Sam's winged words were meant for him, so the statesman translated them into a mutual vernacular.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
General Tso, he was a statesman in the Ging dynasty.美剧 · 《Billions》