Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIAssassination has never changed the history of the world.
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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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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 are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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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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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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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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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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