Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

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

Damn your principles! Stick to your party!

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

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 obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

Great men never require experience.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.