Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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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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Never complain and never explain.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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There is no education like adversity.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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