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
fog people graves
The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.
party position
There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.
courage intelligent political
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
time waste eternity
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
party done politics
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
communication support publicity
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
fear giving spurs
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
race miracle political
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
england one-word
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
england doe coalitions
England does not love coalitions.
love sad broken-heart
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
country southern-italy advice
Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions.
truth justice political
I say that justice is truth in action.
silence diplomacy
There is no diplomacy like silence.