Benjamin Disraeli Quote

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.


Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), cited in The World's Best Orations from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Vol. 1 (eds. David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler), pp. 309-338.


You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.