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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He traces the steam train always back to the kettle
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He traces the steam engine all the way back to the tea kettle.
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He has to learn that petulance is no sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective
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He made his conscience not his guide but his accomplice
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At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists
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Inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination
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If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity.
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I feel a very unusual sensation - if it's not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude
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The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame, -a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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A person's fate is their own temper.
All must respect those who respect themselves.
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The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.