The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWhat is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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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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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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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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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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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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Little things affect little minds.
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