Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics.
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There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
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We have brought a peace, and we trust we have brought a peace with honour, and I trust that that will now be followed by the prosperity of the country.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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In the character of the victim Lincoln, and even in the accessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and the ceremonial of diplomacy-it touches the heart of nations and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind.
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The characteristic of the present age is a craving credulity.
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Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.
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Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.
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Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
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King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
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Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
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But this principle of race is unfortunately one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
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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.
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At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
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A series of congratulatory regrets.
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It is the initial letters of the four points of the compass that make the word 'news,' and he must understand that news is that which collies from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point of the compass, then it is a class publication, and not news.
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I have always felt that the best security for civilisation is the dwelling, and that upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends more than anything else the improvement of mankind. Such dwellings are the nursery of all domestic virtues, and without a becoming home the exercise of those virtues is impossible.