There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
BENJAMIN DISRAELICircumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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My 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.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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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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There is no gambling like politics.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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