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Benjamin Disraeli on Government

1804–1881 England

← All quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

9 quotes

Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

speech at Manchester (1866)

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Tancred (1847)

The country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been found that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

Speech at the Printing Trade Festival (1845)

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

It is just settled: you have it, Madam. The French government has been out-generaled.

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants; but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

Lothair (1870)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Benjamin Disraeli (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.