Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.
Disraeli, Benjamin. The Young Duke. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831, p. 19.
Napoleon’s defeat and abdication took place at the same time and that was the major foreign policy news that effected Englishmen at the time. The War with America was strategically a side show. At the same time, the Americans ships had bested the English almost every time they fought (the biggest and best armed ships were needed for the European War with Napoleon so the English fought with second rate ships in the Atlantic). And although the English had the better of most of the land conflicts, the final Battle of New Orleans was such a humiliating, and one sided, rout of His Majesty’s army, that there was nothing politically to be gained by publicizing the facts of the war. The British government just wanted to negotiate a treaty ending the conflict with America and get on with the activity in Europe. The result is that the English people have never known very much about the War of 1812.
In the Middle Ages, the Muslim World, was the leading scientific, philosophical, mathematical, medical, and historical center of the world. The intellectual decline of Islam has been striking and history has been no exception. The vast majority of 21st century Muslims have little or no idea of the past intellectual achievements of Islam.
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.
