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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egotistical egotism unfortunate
The unfortunate are always egotistical.
education ideas taught
We are taught words, not ideas.
law moral individual
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.
wise law may
Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.
meditation culture
Meditation is culture.
men remember sometimes
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
men criticism authorship
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
life thinking firsts
That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.
fate men temper
A man's fate is his own temper.
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.