Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
— Benjamin Disraeli Modern

British PM

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Reply to a taunt by Daniel O'Connell in the House of Commons.

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1835

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