Man is only great when he acts from passion.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe fool wonders, the wise man asks.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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There is no gambling like politics.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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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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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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Little things affect little minds.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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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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Justice is truth in action.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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