No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIEveryone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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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 can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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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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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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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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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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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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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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A precedent embalms a principle.
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