Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWithout publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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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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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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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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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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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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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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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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