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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We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
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The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.
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Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.
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Her Majesty is not a subject.
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Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.
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I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.
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You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.
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When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.
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Eloquence is the child of knowledge.
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What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.
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I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.
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Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.
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The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.