Quote #15
A precedent embalms a principle.
More from Benjamin Disraeli
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- My objection to Liberalism is this-that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind-namely, politics-of …
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- Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
- It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
- You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no part…
- Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.
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