Statesman vs Politician
In 1866, a year after Richard Cobden died, American journalist and poet WC Bryant made a distinction between the statesman and the politician. The politician, he said, was fickle, preoccupied with short-term advantages to himself and his party, whereas the statesman took a larger view, and acted consistently in the interests of all mankind. Cobden, he said, was a statesman.
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