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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I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
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Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
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All my successes have been built on my failures.
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Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
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The essence of education is the education of the body.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.