War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELITo be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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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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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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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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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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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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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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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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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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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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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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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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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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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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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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