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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Difficulties melt away under tact.
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Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.
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We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.
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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
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A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
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The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.
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As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.
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Duty cannot exist without faith
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Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.
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Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
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Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
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Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
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That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.
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He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.