The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
Benjamin DisraeliI am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.
Benjamin DisraeliPredominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Benjamin DisraeliIt is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
Benjamin DisraeliIf you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
Benjamin Disraeli