My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
BENJAMIN DISRAELII 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.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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Justice is truth in action.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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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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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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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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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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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Never complain and never explain.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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