What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.' — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely,… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share
It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share
Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share
