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
peace world capitalist
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
book race curse
Books are the curse of the human race.
book men great-things
A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.
sweet simplicity three
The sweet simplicity of the three percents.
horse distance dark
The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.
angel men sides
Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.
passion men imagination
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
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Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
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The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.
government evil weak-government
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
men enemy genius
No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius.
reading age delight
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?
writing men thinking
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.