Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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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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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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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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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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Man 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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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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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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Never take anything for granted.
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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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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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