Benjamin Disraeli Politics Quotations

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.

Information upon points of practical politics.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

There is no gambling like politics.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

As for our majority... one is enough.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Party is organized opinion.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

Finality is not the language of politics.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Never complain and never explain.