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
writing discovery language
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.
church population world
Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.
beautiful country ocean
Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.
world this-world depends
Everything in this world depends upon will.
years hours possession
You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.
preparation redress conservatism
Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
men good-man digestion
A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.
affection appreciated lost
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.
men modern natural
Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.
men political sound
'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'
science invention fixed
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.
ideas accepting ready
My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.
europe names two
Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him.
adventure tree fruit
The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”