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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELITaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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