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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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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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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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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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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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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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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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