As for our majority… one is enough.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWhat we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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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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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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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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