Politics Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

— Benjamin Disraeli

With words we govern men.

— Benjamin Disraeli

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

— Benjamin Disraeli

In politics experiments means revolutions.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

— Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Party is organized opinion.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

— Benjamin Disraeli

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

— Benjamin Disraeli

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

— Benjamin Disraeli

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians

— Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

— Benjamin Disraeli

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no…

— Benjamin Disraeli

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely,…

— Benjamin Disraeli

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of…

— Benjamin Disraeli

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these…

— Benjamin Disraeli

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

— Benjamin Disraeli

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding…

— Benjamin Disraeli

I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with…

— Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party…

— Benjamin Disraeli

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone…

— Benjamin Disraeli

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Finality is not the language of politics.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Information upon points of practical politics.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

— Benjamin Disraeli

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

— Benjamin Disraeli