Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWe moralize among ruins.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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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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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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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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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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