Benjamin Disraeli Quote

Something has risen up in this country as fatal in the political world as it has been in the landed world of Ireland—we have a great Parliamentary middleman. It is well known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party, and plunders the other, till, having obtained a position to which he is not entitled, he cries out, "Let us have no party questions, but fixity of tenure."


Speech in the House of Commons (11 April 1845).


Something has risen up in this country as fatal in the political world as it has been in the landed world of Ireland—we have a great Parliamentary...

Something has risen up in this country as fatal in the political world as it has been in the landed world of Ireland—we have a great Parliamentary...

Something has risen up in this country as fatal in the political world as it has been in the landed world of Ireland—we have a great Parliamentary...

Something has risen up in this country as fatal in the political world as it has been in the landed world of Ireland—we have a great Parliamentary...