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...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth21 December 1804
spiritual truth men
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.
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It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!
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You have proved it is a very moral habit.
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The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
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The originality of a subject is in its treatment.
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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.
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At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
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If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
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Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
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No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Great countries are those that produce great people.
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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
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The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.