The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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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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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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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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There is no education like adversity.
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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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Never take anything for granted.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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