Never take anything for granted.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIYou will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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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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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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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 moralize among ruins.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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There is no education like adversity.
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