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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMy idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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Never complain and never explain.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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There is no education like adversity.
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Little things affect little minds.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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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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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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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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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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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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