Political Quotes

Benjamin Disraeli

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Jan 1, 1852

That greatness results from its organization, the consequences of which are shown in its energy and enterprise, in the strength of its will and the fertility of its brain.

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Jan 1, 1852

The Jewish race connects the modern populations with the early ages of the world, when the relations of the Creator with the created were more intimate than in these days, when angels visited the earth, and God himself even spoke with man.

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The Jews represent the Semitic principle; all that is spiritual in our nature.

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Jan 1, 1852

They are the trustees of tradition and the conservators of the religious element.

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Jan 1, 1852

They are a living and the most striking evidence of the falsity of that pernicious doctrine of modern times--the natural equality of man.

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But though nature will never ultimately permit this theory of natural equality to be practised, the preaching of this dogma has already caused much mischief, and may occasion much more.

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Jan 1, 1852

Their bias is to religion, property, and natural aristocracy: and it should be the interest of statesmen that this bias of a great race should be encouraged, and their energies and creative powers enlisted in the cause of existing society.

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Jan 1, 1852

The people of God coöperate with atheists; the most skilful accumulators of property ally themselves with communists; the peculiar and chosen race touch the hand of all the scum and low castes of Europe!

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Jan 1, 1852

And all this because they wish to destroy that ungrateful Christendom which owes to them even its name, and whose tyranny they can no longer endure.

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Jan 1, 1852

Thus it will be seen, that the persecution of the Jewish race has deprived European society of an important conservative element, and added to the destructive party an influential ally.

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Jan 1, 1852

When they first heard of Christianity, it appeared to be a Gentile religion, accompanied by idolatrous practices, from which severe monotheists, like the Arabians, always recoil, and holding the Jewish race up to public scorn and hatred.

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Jan 1, 1852

But Babylon has vanished and Jerusalem remains, and what are the waters of Euphrates to the brook of Kedron!

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Jan 1, 1852

As, however, the converted races become more humane in their behaviour to the Jews, and the latter have opportunity fully to comprehend and deeply to ponder over true Christianity, it is difficult to suppose that the result will not be…

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Jan 1, 1852

Has not Jesus conquered Europe and changed its name into Christendom?

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Jan 1, 1852

Christians may continue to persecute Jews, and Jews may persist in disbelieving Christians, but who can deny that Jesus of Nazareth, the Incarnate Son of the Most High God, is the eternal glory of the Jewish race?

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Jan 1, 1852

Throughout the awful trials of the last sixty years, England, notwithstanding her deficient and meagre theology, has always remembered Sion.

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Jan 1, 1852

The great Transatlantic republic is intensely Semitic, and has prospered accordingly.

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Jan 1, 1852

Austria would long ago have dissolved but for the Semitic principle, and if the north of Germany has never succeeded in attaining that imperial position which seemed its natural destiny, it is that the north of Germany has never at any…

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Jan 1, 1852

But the fall of Spain was occasioned by the expulsion of her Semitic population: a million families of Jews and Saracens, the most distinguished of her citizens for their industry and their intelligence, their learning and their wealth.

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Jan 1, 1852

It was therefore not in any degree from temper, but from principle,--from as pure, as high, and as noble a sense of duty as ever actuated a man in public life,--that Lord George Bentinck ultimately resolved that it was impossible for him…

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Jan 1, 1852

After long and deep and painful pondering, when the hour arrived, he rose from his bed of sickness, walked into the House of Commons, and not only voted, but spoke in favour of his convictions.

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Jan 1, 1852

No series of parliamentary labours had ever produced so much influence in the country in so short a time.

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But it was not that he merely expressed opinions upon these subjects; he came forward with details in support of his principles and policy, which it had before been believed none but a minister could command.

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Jan 1, 1852

Free from prejudices, his large mind sympathized with all classes of the realm.

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Jan 1, 1852

His courage and his constancy were never surpassed by man.

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