“A politician … is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation.”

— James Freeman Clarke

" Wanted, a Statesman! http://books.google.com/books?id=oSNYAAAAYAAJ&q=%22A+politician%22+%22is+a+man+who+thinks+of+the+next+election+while+the+statesman+thinks+of+the+next+generation%22&pg=PA644#v=onepage", Old and New magazine, December 1870.

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American theologian and writer 1810–1888

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