Benjamin Disraeli

[T]he French Revolution, which has not yet ended, and which is certainly the greatest event that has happened in the history of man. Only the fall of the Roman Empire can be compared to it... Look at the Europe of the present day and the …

The characteristic of the present age is a craving credulity.

Never take anything for granted.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

The statesmen who construct, and the warriors who achieve, are only influenced by the instinct of power, and animated by the love of country. Those are the feelings and those the methods which form empires.

Before the civil war commenced, the United States of America were colonies, and we should not forget that such communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

It is fourteen years ago since yourself, then the leader of the country gentlemen...appealed to me to assist you at a moment of apparently overwhelming disaster. I ultimately agreed to do so...because, from my earliest years, my sympathies …

This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics.

I protest against meeting atrocities with atrocities.

It is the initial letters of the four points of the compass that make the word "news," and he must understand that news is that which collies from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point of the compass, then it …

In the great contention between the patriotic and the cosmopolitan principle which has hardly begun and on the issue of which the fate of this island as a powerful community depends, Lord George Bentinck appeared to be produced to …

Yes! I know what I have to face. I have to face a coalition. The combination may be successful. A coalition has before this been successful. But coalitions, although successful, have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. …

I remember—the interruption of the hon. Gentleman reminds me of the words of a great writer, who said that "Grace was beauty in action." Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. Truth should animate an opposition, and I hope it does …

Our morals differ in different counties, in different towns, in different streets, even in different Acts of Parliament. What is moral in London is immoral in Montacute; what is crime among the multitude is only vice among the few.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

London is a modern Babylon.

We moralise among ruins.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

He was fresh and full of faith that "something would turn up."

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.