Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMan is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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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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Silence is the mother of truth.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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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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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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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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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Never complain and never explain.
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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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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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