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The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, War, Names
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Southern Italy, Advice

It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Europe, Secret

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Benjamin Disraeli
Education, Country, School
'Hansard' 15 June 1874, col. 1618

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, People, Produce

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.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Jobs, War
Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Grey de Wilton, October 3, 1873.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Peace, War

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

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Political, Politics

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Power, Tolerance

England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Responsibility, Home
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Independent, Colony
'Hansard' 5 February 1863

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Benjamin Disraeli
Friendship, Country, Men
Speech at Guildhall, 9 November 1877, in 'The Times' 10 November 1877.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Flirting, House
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Opposites, Delightful

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Church, May
Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

Benjamin Disraeli
Beautiful, Country, Ocean
Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.392

Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Rights, Views
Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, May 14, 1850.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Powerful, Fog
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4039, Delphi Classics

It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is - the determination to maintain the Empire of England.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Determination, People
Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Lords, February 20, 1877.

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 the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Party, Government
Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, August 30, 1848.

Change is constant in a progressive country.

Benjamin Disraeli
Life, Change, Country