Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield was a British politician, novelist, and essayist, serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The anniversary of his death on 19 April is known as Primrose Day.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

Benjamin Disraeli

The question is this, "Is man an ape or an angel?" My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence the contrary view, which is I believe, foreign to the conscience of humanity.

Benjamin Disraeli

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Never take anything for granted.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Benjamin Disraeli

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli

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.

Benjamin Disraeli

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Benjamin Disraeli

We cannot learn men from books.

Benjamin Disraeli

I say that justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli

I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Benjamin Disraeli

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Benjamin Disraeli

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.

Benjamin Disraeli

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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Benjamin Disraeli

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

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

The question is this, "Is man an ape or an angel?" My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence the contrary view, which is I believe, foreign to the conscience of humanity.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

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

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

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Never take anything for granted.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

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.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

We cannot learn men from books.

I say that justice is truth in action.

I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

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.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.