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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More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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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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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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