Benjamin Disraeli: Citáty anglicky

Benjamin Disraeli byl britský konzervativní politik, spisovatel, aristokrat a premiér. Citáty anglicky.
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“I remember—the interruption of the hon. Gentleman reminds me of the words of a great writer, who said that "Grace was beauty in action." Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. Truth should animate an opposition, and I hope it does animate this opposition.;”

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Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1851/feb/11/agricultural-distress in the House of Commons (2 February 1851). <br class="br">1850s

“Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.… All is race, there is no other truth.”

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Bk. I, Ch. 13.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace, but a peace, I hope, with honour which may satisfy our Sovereign, and tend to the welfare of the country.”

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Zdroj: From the window of 10 Downing Street, after arriving from Dover (16 July 1878), quoted in 'Return Of Lord Beaconsfield And Lord Salisbury', The Times (17 July 1878), p. 5.

“That fatal drollery called a representative government.”

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Bk. II, Ch. 13.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“This war represents the German Revolution, a greater political event than the French Revolution of last century — I don't say a greater, or as great, a social event. What its social consequences may be are in the future. Not a single principle in the management of our foreign affairs, accepted by all statesmen for guidance up to six months ago, any longer exists. There is not a diplomatic tradition which has not been swept away. You have a new world, new influences at work, new and unknown objects and dangers with which to cope. … The balance of power has been entirely destroyed, and the country which suffers most, and feels the effects of this great change most, is England.”

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Zdroj: Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1871/feb/09/address-to-her-majesty-on-her-most in the House of Commons (9 February 1871) on the Franco-Prussian War which led to German unification.

“No one, I think, can deny that the depression of the agricultural interest is excessive. Though I can recall periods of suffering, none of them have ever equalled the present in its instances. … the agricultural interest is suffering from a succession of bad harvest, accompanied, for the first time, by extremely low prices. That is a remarkable circumstance that has never before occurred—a combination that has never before been encountered. In old days, when we had a bad harvest we had also the somewhat dismal compensation of higher prices; but now, when the harvests are bad the prices are lower rather than higher…nor is it open to doubt that foreign competition has exercised a most injurious influence on the agricultural interests of the country. The country, however, was perfectly warned that if we made a great revolution in our industrial system, that was one of the consequences that would accrue. I may mention that the great result of the returns we possess is this, that the immense importations of foreign agricultural produce have been vastly in excess of what the increased demands of our population actually require, and that is why the low prices are maintained…That is to a great degree the cause of this depression.”

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Speech in the House of Lords on the state of agriculture (28 March 1879), reported in The Times (29 March 1879), p. 8.
1870s

“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.”

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Zdroj: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 71 .

“We have brought a peace, and we trust we have brought a peace with honour, and I trust that that will now be followed by the prosperity of the country.”

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Zdroj: Speech at Dover, England after arriving from the Congress of Berlin (16 July 1878), quoted in 'Return Of Lord Beaconsfield And Lord Salisbury', The Times (17 July 1878), p. 5.

“There is no gambling like politics.”

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Zdroj: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 82.

“London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.”

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Speech at the Printing Trade Festival (1845).
1840s

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”

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This comes from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, part 1, chapter 1.
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“I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.”

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Zdroj: Remark to Lord Aberdare on being welcomed to the House of Lords (1876), cited by Stanley Weintraub, Disraeli: A Biography (1993), p. 563.

“The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants; but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.”

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Preface.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870)

“What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. …There are great truths to tell, if we had either the courage to announce them or the temper to receive them.”

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Book 4, Chap. 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844)

“No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.”

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Theory held by Disraeli, cited in Sir William Fraser, Disraeli and his Day (1891), p. 142.
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“Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics.”

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Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1859/feb/28/leave in the House of Commons (28 February 1859). <br class="br">1850s

“The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.”

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Part 5, Chapter 10.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)

“The characteristic of the present age is a craving credulity.”

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Zdroj: Speech at Oxford Diocesan Conference (25 November 1864), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860&ndash;1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 105.

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

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Speech in the Guildhall, London (9 November 1866), quoted in The Times (10 November 1866), p. 9
1860s