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 STATESMANSHIP STORM

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness. Alexander Smith—Dreamihorp. On the Writing of Essays. • | seealso = (See also {{sc|Wotton) And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. | author = Tennyson | work = In Memoriam. Pt. LXIII. And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet. | author = Tennyson | work = To the Queen. St. 8. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 753 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the emergency, and cave in the emergency's head. Artemus Ward—Things in New York. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 753 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?—Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?—Why by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour or caprice? Washington—Farewell Address. Sept. 17, 1796. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 753 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world— so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it. Washington—Farewell Address. Sept. 17, . | seealso = (See also {{sc|Jefferson}}) | topic = | page = 753 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries. Wotton—Advice to a young diplomat. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Smith}}) | topic = | page = 753 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Legatus est; vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendem rei publioe causae. An ambassador is an honest man sent to he abroad for the commonwealth. Wotton. In the autograph album of Christopher Fleckamore. (1604) Eight years later Jasper Scioppius published it with malicious intent. Wotton apologized, but insisted on the double meaning of lie as a jest. A leiger is an ambassador. So used by Butler—Hudibras. Pt. II. III. 139. Also by Fuller—Holy State. P. 306. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 753 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = STORM Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. | author = Addison | work = The Campaign. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Milton}}) | topic = | page = 753 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot. Athemsus—Deipnosophistw. VIII. 19. Dorian, a flutist, ridiculing Timotheos, a zither player, who imitated a storm at sea. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cicero}}) | topic = | page = 753 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The earth is rocking, the skies are riven— Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven. Robert Buchanan—Horatius Cogitandibus. St. 16. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 753 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A storm in a cream bowl. James Butler, First Duke of Ormond, to the Earl of Arlington, Dec. 28, 1678. Ormond MSS. Commission New Series. Vol. IV. P. 292. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cicero)