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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reason-why schemes should
There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.
book classic acquaintance
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
kings tyrants divine-right
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.
struggle sacrifice influence
A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.
men honor literature
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.
men practice errors
A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.
men energy want
When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.
book battle may
A book may be as great a thing as a battle.
art artist may
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.
army causes noble
The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.
flames volcanoes exhausted
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
destiny bears
Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.
destiny
Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.
character men thinking
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.