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There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Benjamin Disraeli
Age: 76 †
Born: 1804
Born: December 21
Died: 1881
Died: April 19
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Former Leader Of The House Of Commons
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Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.
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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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What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
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To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
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In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
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One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.
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A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.
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In politics experiments means revolutions.
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The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
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The affections are the children of ignorance when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.
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Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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