Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRSwas a British politician and writer, who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and...
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Date of Birth21 December 1804
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Inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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In politics, nothing is contemptible.
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Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman
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He traces the steam train always back to the kettle
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He made his conscience not his guide but his accomplice
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The spirit that does not soar is destined to grovel
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Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd
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Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations
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Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel
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He traces the steam engine all the way back to the tea kettle.
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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.