There is no gambling like politics.
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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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Never take anything for granted.
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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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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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Little things affect little minds.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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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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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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