Revolutionary War Statesman

Famous quotes containing the words war and/or statesman:

    One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.
    Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)

    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)