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
Benjamin Disraeli quotes about
enthusiasm genius breaths
Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.
education ideas taught
We are taught words, not ideas.
meditation culture
Meditation is culture.
men remember sometimes
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
fate men temper
A man's fate is his own temper.
time waste eternity
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
communication support publicity
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
race miracle political
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
truth justice political
I say that justice is truth in action.
silence diplomacy
There is no diplomacy like silence.
accomplishment people despise
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
political politics remember
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
events advantage prove
One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.
country europe secret
It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.