Benjamin Disraeli
Quotations
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“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“War is never a solution it is an aggravation.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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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.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Youth is the trustee of prosperity.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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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.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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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.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Never complain and never explain.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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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.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Assassination has never changed the history of the world.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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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.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“That fatal drollery called a representative government.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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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.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Duty cannot exist without faith.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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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.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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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.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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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 Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. – Benjamin Disraeli
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