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Informationen über Benjamin Disraeli

Schriftsteller, Politiker, Premierminister von 1866 bis 1868 und 1874 bis 1880, "The Young Duke", "The Revolutionary Epick", "Venetia", "Endymion", "Falconet" (England, 1804 - 1881).

Benjamin Disraeli · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Benjamin Disraeli wäre heute 220 Jahre, 3 Monate, 13 Tage oder 80.457 Tage alt.

Geboren am 21.12.1804 in London
Gestorben am 19.04.1881 in London
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• I believe that without party Parliamentary government is impossible.

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• I believe they went out, like all good things, with the Stuarts.

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• I had to prepare the mind of the country, and . . . to educate our party.

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• I hate definitions.

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• I have begun several things many times, and I have often succeeded at last. I will sit down, but the time will come when you will hear me.

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• I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.

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• I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

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• I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.

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• I hold that the characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

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• I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

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• I never deny; I never contradict; I sometimes forget.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• I read this morning an awful, though monotonous, manifesto in the great organ of public opinion, which always makes me tremble: Olympian bolts; and yet I could not help fancying amid their rumbling terrors I heard the plaintive treble of the Treasury Bench.

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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.

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• I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations.

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• I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

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• If Glad fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity.

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• In the 'Town' yesterday, I am told 'some one asked Disraeli, in offering himself for Marylebone, on what he intended to stand. "On my head," was the reply.'

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• Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

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• Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

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• Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

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