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Famous Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
“Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.”
“Information upon points of practical politics.”
“You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.”
“A precedent embalms a principle.”
“The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.”
“In politics, nothing is contemptible.”
“There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.”
“An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.”
“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”
“What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.”
“Never take anything for granted.”
“Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.”
“We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.”
“Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.”
“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”
“Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.”
“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.”
“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.”
“The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.”
“A majority is always better than the best repartee.”
“Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.”
“There is no gambling like politics.”
“The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.”