I thought it was very probable our wise statesmen would erect a new government and form a new Code of Laws.

"Stalin was a wise statesman, an extraordinary personality who performed under extremely complicated historical conditions," she said.

French ambassadors who go to the prince to protest the death of Barnavelt, whom they have known only as a wise statesman.

Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman, what would it amount to?

He was a wise statesman who ran his country under the difficult conditions of confrontation with Israel and the West.

General Pinochet was suddenly transformed from a dictator into a wise elder statesman.

- such should be the task of a truly wise statesman!

He was an intelligent leader, a progressive soldier and a wise statesman.

He had been a mighty warrior in his youth and was now a wise statesman and judge in his old age.

In a strange role reversal, Mr. Cheney last night played the wise elder statesman setting the record straight.