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
book men political
We cannot learn men from books.
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I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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I say that justice is truth in action.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.