For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.


Letter to Lord Grey de Wilton (3 October 1873), cited in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Vol. 5 (1920), p. 262.

Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution,...

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution,...

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution,...

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution,...