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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes


I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

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.

I say that justice is truth in action.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Justice is truth in action.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

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