Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Politics
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Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
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Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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Never take anything for granted.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.
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King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
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Never complain and never explain.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
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In politics, nothing is contemptible.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
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Party is organized opinion.
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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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I say that justice is truth in action.
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'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'
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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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