The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone… — 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
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
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
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
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
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. — 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
Whenever 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
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. — 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
