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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powerful men matter
Man is more powerful than matter.
country powerful fog
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
powerful power speakers
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
time powerful
Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.
powerful men world
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
powerful men people
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies ; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.
wisdom powerful intelligent
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
enemies permanent
We have no permanent friend. We have no permanent enemies. We just have permanent interests.
country determination appreciate
It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is—the determination to maintain the Empire of England.
wheels world rounds
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.
book men political
We cannot learn men from books.
reading historical quality
If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.
dancing ballet carriages
Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.
principles protection
Protection is not a principle but an expedient