Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland's lecture yesterday on Edmund Burke was as well attended as ever in spite of the weather. He treated Burke chiefly as a man of letters, with only a brief account of his qualities as the greatest statesman and political philosopher the English speaking race has produced...
President Andrews opposed the generally accepted theory of Demosthenes that Athens was the centre of Greek democracy and that when Philip of Macedon defeated the Athenians he destroyed Greek liberty. Demosthenes was not so great a statesman as Phocion, who foresaw that Greece needed for her preservation the unification which could only be obtained through the domination of some one state or man. Owing to jealousy among the Greek states the only salvation for Greece was the rule of Philip, and after his death, of Alexander...
Best general references: Am. Cyclo. V, 543; Rev. of Rev., Jan., Feb., Mar., '97; Arena, Sept. '97; Statesman's Year Book for 1897, 1062, 944; Hall Int. Law, Introduction and Ch. VIII...
George Bancroft, 1817, Statesman and Historian...
...desire to molest the Catholics, it wishes to let them have every chance. Not long ago a Catholic delivered one of the Dudleian lectures, a fact that shows the liberality of the present American feeling toward Catholics. The Catholic Church occupies a very important public position. No party, no statesman leaves it out of account. It has a tremendous power. It claims to be the direct organ of God, and, for that reason, absolute and infallible. These great and unique claims can not be passed over without a challenge. This is the answer of liberalism...