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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIOne secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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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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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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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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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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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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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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