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 DISRAELIA man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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Never complain and never explain.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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Justice is truth in action.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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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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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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