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Been Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
- Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
- Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit…
- Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.
- At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
- 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…
- For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property…
- It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All…
- No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that…
- A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.
- The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and…
- Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
- Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and…
- The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress,…
- The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.
- I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
- The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
- Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their…
- Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
- All my successes have been built on my failures.
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