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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELILike all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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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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Travel teaches toleration.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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There is no education like adversity.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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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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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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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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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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