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
funny humor majesty
Her Majesty is not a subject.
men race civilization
Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.
conservative constitution radical
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.
europe intellectual movement
You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.
world rothschild lord
Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else.
years hours possession
You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.
magnificence splendor wealth
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
philosophical ideas political
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
passion mankind
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
use motto turns
I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.
children rivers mind
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.
men genius doctrine
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.
destiny
Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.
destiny bears
Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.