Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Community
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Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."
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Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
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I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.
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Benjamin Disraeli
- Born: December 21, 1804
- Died: April 19, 1881
- Occupation: Former Leader of the House of Commons
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