More from Benjamin Disraeli

  1. A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
  2. It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
  3. The right honorable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their …
  4. The right honourable gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] tells us to go back to precedents; with him a great measure is always founded on a small p…
  5. It is knowledge that influences and equalises the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, p…
  6. Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
  7. The noble lord is the Prince Rupert of parliamentary discussion: his charge is resistless, but when he returns from the pursuit he always f…
  8. A precedent embalms a principle.

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