The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIAs for our majority… one is enough.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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We moralize among ruins.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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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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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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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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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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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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Travel teaches toleration.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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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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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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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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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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