I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England. — 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
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. — 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
London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand. — 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
It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism - an unhappy cross breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.' — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with… — 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
Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed… — 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
You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times… — 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 practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. — 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
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
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 Image
I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
