Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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Little things affect little minds.
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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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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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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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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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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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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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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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