Quote #30
Never take anything for granted.
More from Benjamin Disraeli
- At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
- The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
- Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
- What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance which to me is most astonishing? That question is this: Is man an ap…
- He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
- Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
- Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
- In the character of the victim [Lincoln], and even in the accessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent that i…