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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A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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London; a nation, not a city.
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I say that justice is truth in action.
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Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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England does not love coalitions.
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I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
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There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.
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The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.
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Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.
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Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.
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The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.
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The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.