Benjamin Disraeli

“סוד ההצלחה הוא דבקות במטרה.”

“The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.”

“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.”

“Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.”

“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.”

“An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.”

“There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.”

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”

“Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.”

“Little things affect little minds.”

“Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.”

“Without tact you can learn nothing.”

“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”

“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.”

“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”

“Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.”

“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”

“The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.”

“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”