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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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.
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The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.
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I believe absence is a great element of charm.
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Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.
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Religion is civilization, the highest.
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I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
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If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
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Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
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London is a modern Babylon.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained.
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To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.