Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Power, Two Nations, Welfare Programs

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.315

• The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Care, Firsts, Duty

• What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiration, Men, Competition

• You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Church, May

  Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

• Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Rights, Views

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, May 14, 1850.

• A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Law, Moral, Individual

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Lothair”, p.214

• England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Responsibility, Home

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

• Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Rights, Poverty, Duty

• Duty cannot exist without faith

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Duty

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.139

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