To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. – Benjamin Disraeli
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity. – Benjamin Disraeli
I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. – Benjamin Disraeli
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. – Benjamin Disraeli
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. – Benjamin Disraeli
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. – Benjamin Disraeli
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. – Benjamin Disraeli
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. – Benjamin Disraeli
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. – Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. – Benjamin Disraeli
