The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin Disraeli

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
Benjamin Disraeli

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Benjamin Disraeli

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Benjamin Disraeli

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Benjamin Disraeli

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benjamin Disraeli

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli