4 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Stability

Benjamin Disraeli quotes on stability

2. I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

22. Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

113. 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.

247. If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.