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
men
With words we govern men.
firsts care duty
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
peace lord diplomacy
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.
art truth honesty
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
country war names
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.
mean government revolution
In politics experiments means revolutions.
smoking tobacco tombs
Tobacco is the tomb of love.
country opposites ireland
Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.
passion self play
We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.
youth young fortune
To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.
accomplishment people despise
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
pages blank new-testament
I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.
political politics remember
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
funny humor majesty
Her Majesty is not a subject.