It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.
History is the school of statesmanship.
You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
Learn to think impartially.