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
Benjamin Disraeli quotes about
time suffering age
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
time military fool
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
errors sincerity earnest
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
All must respect those who respect themselves.
revolution opinion rebellious
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
kings talking-politics political
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
people brain world
No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
war passion independence
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
messages last-words ask-me
No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.
trust exercise power
All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.
art criticism literature
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
perseverance moving two
Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.
quality firsts dukes
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.
smoking moral habit
You have proved it is a very moral habit.