Benjamin Disraeli

British statesman, Conservative politician and writer169 QUOTES

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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was a British statesman, Conservative politician, and writer. He lived in the 19th century and twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is also notable as the only British prime minister born into a Jewish family. Disraeli helped shape the modern Conservative Party, setting its policy direction and widening its appeal. He is remembered for his influence in foreign affairs, his long political rivalry with William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism, often called Tory democracy. He also helped make the Conservatives the party most closely associated with the British Empire and with military expansion.

“Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.”

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“There is moderation even in excess.”

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

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“The canter is a cure for every evil.”

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“As for our majority... one is enough.”

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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.”

FASHION

“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.”

GRIEF

“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”

TRUTH MOTIVATION

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

TRUTH TIME TRUST

“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”

FIRE COURAGE

“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”

MARRIAGE

“In politics nothing is contemptible.”

TRUTH

“Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.”

CHANGE

“A precedent embalms a principle.”

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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. 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.”

ORDER

“Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.”

TRUTH

“Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.”

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“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

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“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.”

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