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
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There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
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Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.
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As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
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One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.
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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
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The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.
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Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.
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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.