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
race years house
This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma , Inkerman, and Balaclava , may be glorious but are certainly nothing more.
party politics opinion
Party is organized opinion.
truth learning history
Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.
life-is-too-short imagination littles
Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.
silence speech judgment
Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.
country rights views
Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection.
errors quality bishops
This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.
class community quality
I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.
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Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.
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Turtle makes all men equal.
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The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.
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Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.
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Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.
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The gondola of London [a hansom].