Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual me

Summary

This quote suggests that a wise statesman should have the ability to use the negative qualities or attributes of individuals for the benefit of the public. It implies that a leader should be able to acknowledge and utilize the sometimes unpleasant characteristics of people in order to achieve positive outcomes for society as a whole. It highlights the importance of realistic and pragmatic decision-making in politics, even if it means employing qualities that may be perceived as negative or selfish, as long as it serves the greater good.

Topics

Politics

By Abraham Lincoln

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, t

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

Charles de Montesquieu

Truth Rights

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be empl

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Thomas Traherne

Action(s)

He was defeated 2000 years ago though there's many that feel

He was defeated 2000 years ago though there's many that feel that he is The Lord and that they will succeed.

Evil

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some lev

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Business Science

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Happiness Wonder Dream Morella Short Story

Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its e

Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

Thomas Jefferson

Action

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sa

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

Sad

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unend

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Life

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Reading

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silico

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

Computers

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you ca

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

Politics

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're no

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

H. G. Bissinger

Education