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
life country progressive
Change is constant in a progressive country.
believe quality links
I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.
life century anticipate
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
fall race blood
All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.
confused men race
No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.
two gentleman consideration
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
inspiration men competition
What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
power
The depositary of power is always unpopular.
friendship country men
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
responsibility giving advice
I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.
art study fine
In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.
data views turns
Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.
animal law desert
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.
men nonsense commerce
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.