Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Never take anything for granted.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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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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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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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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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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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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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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We moralize among ruins.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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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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