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There is no wisdom like frankness. (Benjamin Disraeli)
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. View quote
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Books are the curse of the human race. View quote
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Principle is ever my motto, not expediency. View quote
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Party is organized opinion. View quote
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The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims. View quote
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It is the lot of man to suffer. View quote
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Departure should be sudden. View quote
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If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. View quote
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All power is a trust and we are accountable for its exercise. View quote
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He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and is always pilfered when dead. (Benjamin Disraeli)
The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled. View quote
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We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason. View quote
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Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful. View quote
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My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas. View quote
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Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. View quote
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You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. View quote
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That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us which first makes us think. View quote
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The noble lord is the Rupert of debate. View quote
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As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. View quote
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It is fourteen years ago since yourself, then the leader of the country gentlemen...appealed to me to assist you at a moment of apparently overwhelming disaster. I ultimately agreed to do so...because, from my earliest years, my sympathies had been with the landed interest of England. (Benjamin Disraeli)
I hate definitions. View quote
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Our morals differ in different counties, in different towns, in different streets, even in different Acts of Parliament. What is moral in London is immoral in Montacute; what is crime among the multitude is only vice among the few. View quote
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Though lions to their enemies they were lambs to their friends. View quote
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I am not ashamed or afraid to say that I wish more sympathy had been shown on both sides towards the Chartists. ... I am not ashamed to say that I sympathise with millions of my fellow-subjects. View quote
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