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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIA great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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Never complain and never explain.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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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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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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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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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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