Benjamin Disraeli:

I deny that a people can govern itself. Self-government is a contradiction in terms. Whatever form a government assumes, power must be exercised by a minority of numbers.

— Benjamin Disraeli Modern

British PM

Context

From a writing, expressing his anti-democratic views.

Date / Period

1834

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