Benjamin Disraeli quotes - page 8

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. (Benjamin Disraeli)
For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering. View quote
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Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. View quote
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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. View quote
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The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world. View quote
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. View quote
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party. View quote
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I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. View quote
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Travel teaches tolerance. View quote
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The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people. View quote
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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. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. View quote
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The expected always happens. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. View quote
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Adventures are to the adventurous. View quote
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The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation. View quote
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools. View quote
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London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law. View quote
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet. View quote
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We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. View quote
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity. View quote
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. View quote
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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. View quote
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