Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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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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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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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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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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Little things affect little minds.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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