William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe 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.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Travel teaches toleration.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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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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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Never complain and never explain.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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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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Never take anything for granted.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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