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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Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.
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England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
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I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.
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The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.
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Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
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He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
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Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
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Departure should be sudden.
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All is race - there is no other truth.
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Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.
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Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.
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There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse
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The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies ; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.
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Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.