Quotes By Benjamin Disraeli

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

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

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

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

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 must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

We cannot learn men from books.

Never take anything for granted.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Success is the child of audacity.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Little things affect little minds.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

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.