Sentences with 'statesmen'

Example sentences and phrases with the word statesmen and other words derived from it.

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« Republican statesmen of the 1780s and 1790s routinely expected and received deferential treatment from others, and ordinary Americans submitted to their "social superiors" as a matter of course. »
« The women of the newly independent nation did not demand the right to vote, but some, especially the wives of elite Republican statesmen, began to agitate for equality before the law between husbands and wives, and to demand the same educational opportunities as men. »
« While the Federalist statesmen, like the architects of the federal Constitution of 1787, feared pure democracy, Jefferson was much more optimistic that the ordinary American peasant could be trusted to make good decisions. He believed in majority rule, that is, that the majority of the peasantry should have the power to make decisions binding on the whole. »
« "We produce artists, not statesmen," said Juan Carlos Cano Diez de los Ríos, a Barcelona-born computer specialist, and I thought of the painters Joan Miró and Antoni Tapies, the sculptor Xavier Corberó, the architects Antonio Gaudí and Ricardo Bofill, the cellist Pablo Casals and the opera singers José Carreras and Montserrat Caballé. But it is impossible to leave Juan Antonio Samaranch, former diplomat and former president of the International Olympic Committee, off the list. Notable business leaders from the region would also make the list. »

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