Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is moderation even in excess.
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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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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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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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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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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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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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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 is moderation even in excess.
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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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