The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThings must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Never take anything for granted.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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We moralize among ruins.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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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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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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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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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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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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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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