Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
BENJAMIN DISRAELITaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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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.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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There is no education like adversity.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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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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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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