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
science invention fixed
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.
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'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'
envy justice hypocrisy
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.
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The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.
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Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.
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Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.
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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
men may energy
No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.
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Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
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The unfortunate are always egotistical.
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We are taught words, not ideas.
law moral individual
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.
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Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.
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If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.