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...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth21 December 1804
parsimony brevity prodigals
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.
law government london
London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.
fate people bishops
A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.
race years house
This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma , Inkerman, and Balaclava , may be glorious but are certainly nothing more.
men turtles appetite
Turtle makes all men equal.
heart blood arrows
The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.
men race civilization
Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.
believe party government
I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.
conservative constitution radical
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.
men dining sitting
When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.
rights poverty duty
Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.
children eloquence
Eloquence is the child of knowledge.
success failure fortune
What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.
men
With words we govern men.