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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grew eloquence intoxicated
I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.
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The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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London; a nation, not a city.
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The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.
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Information upon points of practical politics.
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The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.