What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMy objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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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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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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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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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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