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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Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.
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Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations
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Every product of genius must be the product of enthusiasm.
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
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Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd
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One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
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