I have always felt that the best security for civilisation is the dwelling, and that upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends more than anything else the improvement of mankind. Such dwellings are the nursery of all domestic virtues, and without a becoming home the exercise of those virtues is impossible.


Speech at the opening of Shaftesburgh Park Estate (18 July 1874), cited in Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Collected from his Writings and Speeches (1881), p. 38.

Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

I have always felt that the best security for civilisation is the dwelling, and that upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends more than ...

I have always felt that the best security for civilisation is the dwelling, and that upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends more than ...

I have always felt that the best security for civilisation is the dwelling, and that upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends more than ...

I have always felt that the best security for civilisation is the dwelling, and that upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends more than ...