Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister (Tory), Speech on Reform Bill of 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland, October 29, 1867
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1st Baron Macaulay. See {620691} for a related idea.
1st Baron Macaulay. FDR used the latter part of the quotation in a speech to the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, NY, September 29, 1936.
She was charged with interfering with the Draft during WWI. She wrote and gave speeches against the war and was convicted according to the laws and court interpretations of the time.
See Heraclitus {436440} for the ancient Greek exposition of this idea.
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.
