Sentences with 'statesman'
Example sentences and phrases with the word statesman and other words derived from it.
• « It was not until 1752 that the American statesman, scientist and writer Benjamin Franklin, who was to invent the lightning rod some time later, demonstrated that it was an electrical discharge; for this he devised his celebrated experiment of flying a kite in the midst of an electrical storm. »
• « Cleverly, having defeated the Greek polis, Philip II began to behave like a Greek statesman and to assume a kind of symbolic leadership of Greek culture itself, not just Greek politics. »
• « Pericles was an Athenian statesman and general. A radical democrat governor, a persuasive orator, he was elected "strategist" year after year from 443 to 429 BC. »
• « One of the slaves on Lloyd's plantation was Frederick Douglass, who escaped in 1838 and became a leading abolitionist, writer, statesman and orator in the North. »