The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Justice is truth in action.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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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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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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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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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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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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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 choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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