Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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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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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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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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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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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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There is moderation even in excess.
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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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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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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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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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