The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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There is no education like adversity.
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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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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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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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Never complain and never explain.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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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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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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