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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Benjamin Disraeli
Government, Long, Political
'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 1

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli
Education, Learning, Light
'Hansard' 11 March 1873, col. 1814

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

Benjamin Disraeli
Grief, Blunders, Indulgence

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli
Passion, Men, Conquer The World
Benjamin Disraeli (1869). “The Novels and Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P.”, p.176

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time
Benjamin Disraeli's maiden speech in the House of Commons, December 7, 1837.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Power, Tolerance

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

Benjamin Disraeli
May, Revolution, Causes
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

Benjamin Disraeli
Dull, Life Is
Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil: Or, The Two Nations”, p.201

In politics experiments means revolutions.

Benjamin Disraeli
Mean, Government, Revolution
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.505, Delphi Classics

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

Benjamin Disraeli
Beauty, Source, Source Of Happiness
Benjamin Disraeli (1976). “The Works: Lothair ; 1”

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time, Youth, Trustees
'Sybil' (1845) bk. 6, ch. 13

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

Benjamin Disraeli
Incense, Fool, Praise
Benjamin Disraeli (1833). “Vivian Grey”, p.205

The essence of education is the education of the body.

Benjamin Disraeli
Education, Learning, Knowledge
Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.137

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

Benjamin Disraeli
Views, Data, Turns
Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.173

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

Benjamin Disraeli
Children, Rivers, Mind
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.833, Delphi Classics

How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.

Benjamin Disraeli
Book, Men, Ideas
"Coningsby". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book VII, Ch. 2, 1844.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

Benjamin Disraeli
Encouragement, Passion, Garden
Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.334

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

Benjamin Disraeli
Music, Beautiful, Piano
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4879, Delphi Classics

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Benjamin Disraeli
Feelings, Desire, Causes
Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Lothair”, p.135

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Benjamin Disraeli
Responsibility, Power, Next
"Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches".

Religion is civilization, the highest.

Benjamin Disraeli
Civilization, Religion, Highest

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

Benjamin Disraeli
Moving, Thinking, Feelings

A canter is the cure for all evil.

Benjamin Disraeli
Animal, Evil, Pet

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli
Suffering, World, England
'Hansard' 15 March 1838

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Benjamin Disraeli
Power, Gambling, Politics