Benjamin Disraeli - Government Quotes

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Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.

Benjamin Disraeli
I admit that there is gossip…But the government of the world is carried on by sovereigns and statesmen, and not by anonymous paragraph writers…or by the hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

Benjamin Disraeli
'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Benjamin Disraeli
I entirely differ with the Government as to the value of precedents. In this case, as in others, precedents are not mere dusty phrases, which do not substantially affect the question before us. A precedent embalms a principle.

Benjamin Disraeli
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Benjamin Disraeli
London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

Benjamin Disraeli
Sir, it is very easy to complain of party Government, and there may be persons capable of forming an opinion on this subject who may entertain a deep objection to that Government, and know to what that objection leads. But there are others who shrug their shoulders, and talk in a slipshod style on this head, who, perhaps, are not exactly aware of what the objections lead to. These persons should understand, that if they object to party Government, they do, in fact, object to nothing more nor less than Parliamentary Government. A popular assembly without parties—500 isolated individuals—cannot stand five years against a Minister with an organized Government without becoming a servile Senate.

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You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when Gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at that scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

Benjamin Disraeli
A government of statesmen or of clerks? Of Humbug or Humdrum?

Benjamin Disraeli
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

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Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

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