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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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
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The world is governed by personalities very different to what people that cannot see further than their eyes, believe
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Adventures are to the adventurous.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
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People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
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I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
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To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you
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How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.