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1804–1881 England
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) 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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What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance the most astounding? That question is this—Is man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the angels.
But this principle of race is unfortunately one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
The statesmen who construct, and the warriors who achieve, are only influenced by the instinct of power, and animated by the love of country. Those are the feelings and those the methods which form empires.
In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable.
Though lions to their enemies they were lambs to their friends.
He was fresh and full of faith that "something would turn up."
Tancred (1847)
I shall withhold my support from every Ministry which will not originate some great measure to ameliorate the condition of the lower orders.
Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.
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.
Vivian Grey (1826)
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
A series of congratulatory regrets.
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.
I am neither Whig nor Tory. My politics are described by one word, and that word is ENGLAND.
We are all born for love.
Sybil (1845)
England does not love coalitions.
Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
I believe the landed interest should be the basis of our political and social system.
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Lothair (1870)
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