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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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
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I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Amusement to an observing mind is study.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.