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Benjamin Disraeli

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I say that justice is truth in action.


— Benjamin Disraeli


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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.


— Benjamin Disraeli


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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.


— Benjamin Disraeli


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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.


— Benjamin Disraeli


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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.


— Benjamin Disraeli


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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.


— Benjamin Disraeli


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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.


— Benjamin Disraeli


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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.


— Benjamin Disraeli


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


— Benjamin Disraeli


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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.


— 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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