Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWithout publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIPlagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELILike all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
BENJAMIN DISRAELITime is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIA great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
BENJAMIN DISRAELIChange is inevitable. Change is constant.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIModeration is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMan 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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIColonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMy 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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIAlmost everything that is great has been done by youth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is moderation even in excess.
BENJAMIN DISRAELILet the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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