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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It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
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Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.
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An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
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The originality of a subject is in its treatment.
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Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
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As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.
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"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."
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Difficulties melt away under tact.
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What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
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There is no wisdom like frankness.
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The expected always happens
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London is a roost for every bird.