Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Disraeli, Benjamin. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates. 3rd ser., vol. 139, Cornelius Buck, 1855, col. 891.
SAC is responsible for all the ground based intercontinental nuclear missiles and the airborne nuclear bombers. There has been a very low tolerance for error as the dangers were so high. None the less, there have been a number of serious failures over the years but the nuclear and other damage has not been catastrophic.
“Rendition” is the name for arresting or kidnapping suspected terrorists and sending them to countries in the Middle East where the rules against torture are weak or non-existent.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, MP, FRS, was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880. He was a member of the British Conservative Party and played a central role in the creation of the modern Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is the only British prime minister to have been of Jewish birth. He was also a novelist, publishing works of fiction even as prime minister.
