Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.
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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.
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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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Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.
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Bradlaugh makes the most noise, but the Irish Evictions Bill is much the most serious thing. ... If the Eviction Act passes, there will not be many more seasons. It is a revolutionary age and the chances are, that even you and I may live to see the final extinction of the great London Season, which was the wonder and admiration of our youth.
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Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
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Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace, but a peace, I hope, with honour which may satisfy our Sovereign, and tend to the welfare of the country.
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There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
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Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
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To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them.
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But he has left us the legacy of heroes—the memory of his great name, and the inspiration of his great example.
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At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
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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.
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A series of congratulatory regrets.
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It is the initial letters of the four points of the compass that make the word 'news,' and he must understand that news is that which collies from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point of the compass, then it is a class publication, and not news.
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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.
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I have always felt that the best security for civilisation is the dwelling, and that upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends more than anything else the improvement of mankind. Such dwellings are the nursery of all domestic virtues, and without a becoming home the exercise of those virtues is impossible.