Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRSwas a British politician and writer, who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and...
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Date of Birth21 December 1804
Benjamin Disraeli quotes about
hands government self-control
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
government evil weak-government
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
government representative-government representatives
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
law government london
London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.
believe party government
I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.
mean government revolution
In politics experiments means revolutions.
country party government
You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and therefore when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which, I hope, will keep it great.
government numbers long
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.
government long political
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
government hypocrisy political
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
order nwo world-government
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
kings world-government order
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
education school government
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
enemies permanent
We have no permanent friend. We have no permanent enemies. We just have permanent interests.