Benjamin Disraeli

Party is organised opinion.

All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must end.

The age of chivalry is past. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

The greatest discovery of my life has been the discovery of myself.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.

Language and religion do not make a race—there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

All is race; there is no other truth, and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

[The Irish] hate our order, our civilization, our enterprising industry, our pure religion. This wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain and superstitious race have no sympathy with the English character. Their ideal of human felicity is an alternation of clannish broils and coarse idolatry. Their history describes an unbroken circle of bigotry and blood.

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

I look upon the Whigs as an anti-national party... Believing that the policy of the party was such as must destroy the honour of the kingdom abroad and the happiness of the people at home, I considered it my duty to oppose the Whigs, to ensure their discomfiture, and, if possible, their destruction.

The right hon. Gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal position, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws . . . . THE RICH AND THE POOR.

It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

A self-made man, who worships his creator.