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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The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else.
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Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.