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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I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
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The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.
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An obedient wife commands her husband.
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The world is governed by personalities very different to what people that cannot see further than their eyes, believe