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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The depositary of power is always unpopular.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.
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Man is more powerful than matter.
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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
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An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
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The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
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Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.
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Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.
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The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
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The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies ; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.
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Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.