Benjamin Disraeli: Citáty anglicky (strana 6)

“I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.”

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Benjamin Disraeli

Zdroj: Speech of 9 November 1867.

“As for our majority… one is enough.”

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Benjamin Disraeli

Zdroj: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 64.

“The very phrase "foreign affairs" makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.”

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Benjamin Disraeli

Zdroj: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 531.

“"But they deserve their wealth," he added, "nobody grudges it to them. I declare when I was eating that truffle, I felt a glow about my heart that, if it were not indigestion, I think must have been gratitude; though that is an article I had not believed in.”

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Zdroj: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 23.

“If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.”

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Benjamin Disraeli

Zdroj: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 85.

“London is a roost for every bird.”

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Zdroj: Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870), Ch. 11.

“Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine- tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.”

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Zdroj: Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870), Ch. 29.

“A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.”

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Benjamin Disraeli

Book V, Chapter 6.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)

“Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.”

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Benjamin Disraeli

Book 2, chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Henrietta Temple (1837)

“The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.”

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Bk. III, Ch. 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“A majority is always the best repartee.”

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Bk. II, Ch. 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“But he has left us the legacy of heroes—the memory of his great name, and the inspiration of his great example.”

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Benjamin Disraeli

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1849/feb/01/address-in-answer-to-the-speech in the House of Commons (1 February 1849).
1840s

“Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."”

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Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1850/may/14/foreign-corn in the House of Commons (14 May 1850).
1850s

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

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Zdroj: Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870), Ch. 17.

“A wise Government, allying itself with religion, would, as it were, consecrate society and sanctify the State. But how is this to be done? It is the problem of modern politics which has always most embarrassed statesmen. No solution of the difficulty can be found in salaried priesthoods and complicated concordats. But by the side of the State in England there has gradually arisen a majestic corporation wealthy, powerful, independent with the sanctity of a long tradition, yet sympathising with authority, and full of conciliation, even deference, to the civil power. Broadly and deeply planted in the land, mixed up with all our manners and customs, one of the main guarantees of our local government, and therefore one of the prime securities of our common liberties, the Church of England is part of our history, part of our life, part of England itself.”

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Benjamin Disraeli

Zdroj: Speech in Aylesbury (14 November 1861), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 96