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Benjamin Disraeli Inspirational Quotes (337)

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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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All is mystery but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
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Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.
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Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
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The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.
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Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
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Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
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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 sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
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It is the lot of man to suffer it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.
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One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
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Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.
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The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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