Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
Benjamin DisraeliA female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.
Benjamin DisraeliConsider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.
Benjamin Disraeli