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
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No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.
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The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.
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Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.
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I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.
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Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
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Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.
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Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.
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As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
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A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.
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A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.
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In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.
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London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.
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A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.
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Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.