Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

British - Statesman December 21, 1804 - April 19, 1881

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

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Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

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

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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

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There is no education like adversity.

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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

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There is no gambling like politics.

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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

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That fatal drollery called a representative government.

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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

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