" 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 British politician (1804 – 1881)

" I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

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

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" The fool wonders, the wise man asks. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

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

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

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

Benjamin Disraeli, speech, January 24, 1860 British politician (1804 – 1881)

" Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" A precedent embalms a principle. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. "

Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845 British politician (1804 – 1881)

" As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" The secret of success is constancy to purpose. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" 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. "

Benjamin Disraeli, campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832 British politician (1804 – 1881)

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

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" It is easier to be critical than correct. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" We make our fortunes and call them fate. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant. "

Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867) British politician (1804 – 1881)

" The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

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

Benjamin Disraeli, Speech at the House of Commons, January 24, 1860 British politician (1804 – 1881)

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

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

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