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Benjamin Disraeli

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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.


— Benjamin Disraeli


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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.


— Benjamin Disraeli


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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.


— Benjamin Disraeli


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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.


— Benjamin Disraeli


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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.


— Benjamin Disraeli


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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.


— Benjamin Disraeli


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


— Benjamin Disraeli


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


— Benjamin Disraeli


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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.


— Benjamin Disraeli


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


— Benjamin Disraeli


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However landlords did not adjust the rents they were charging for land rented to farmers for growing wheat or "corn". The establishment of the income tax on a permanent basis had been the subject of much inter-party discussion since the fall of Peel's ministry in June 1846. The government's principal measure for the 1858 session involved re-organising the governance of India the Indian Mutiny having exposed the inadequacy of dual control.

Disraeli fascinated and divided contemporary opinion; he was seen by many including some members of his own party as an adventurer and a charlatan and by others as a far-sighted and patriotic statesman. Disraeli invented the political novel of which Sybil and Vivian Grey are perhaps the best-known today. Disraeli's career from 1852 onwards was also marked by an intense rivalry with William Ewart Gladstone who eventually rose to become leader of the Liberal Party.

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