Benjamin Disraeli

unprincipled maniac

an extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition.

It is race, not religion that interests me.

half Christendom worships a Jewess, and the other half a Jew…. Which is the superior race, the worshipped or the worshippers?

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people, all legitimate government exists.

The Conservative Party is a party of great principles, of great traditions, a party that has ever been associated with the glory and the greatness of England.

The unimpaired Purity of the Public Credit, the Maintenance of the Institutions of the Country, and the Increase of the Welfare of the People, are the three great objects of the Conservative Party.

I am a man of principle, and my principle is to be ready for anything.

When I want to read a good book, I write one.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Justice is truth in action.

The most fatal error possible in politics is that of ignoring the spirit of the age.

A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

The British Empire is a choice, not a necessity.

A precedent embalms a principle.

There are no secrets of success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been, the more accurate will be his judgment of what is to be.

The greatest danger to the state is not a foreign foe, but a divided people.