The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
BENJAMIN DISRAELITaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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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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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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We moralize among ruins.
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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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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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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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