Benjamin Disraeli
British PM
Sayings by Benjamin Disraeli
Power has only one duty — to secure the social welfare of the people.
The only way to ascertain the truth is to examine the evidence.
I am a gentleman. I live in a world of gentlemen.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Travel teaches toleration.
The greatest wisdom is to be ignorant that you are wise.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.
The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity.
The most important thing in life is to know how to live.
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
The East is a career.
He was a man of fine parts, but he had no originality.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
There is no more potent antidote to the poison of an evil imagination than the free and healthy play of the mind upon the works of nature.
The only object of a good government is to obtain the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
I was born in a library.