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
positive-thinking criticism politics
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
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Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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Little things affect little minds.
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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
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Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.