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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Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
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Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.
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The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
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You have proved it is a very moral habit.
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I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
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If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.
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Life is to short to be small.
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That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.
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Every man should marry - and no woman
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There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.
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In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.
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Man is more powerful than matter.
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For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.
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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.