Benjamin Disraeli Government Quotations

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

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

I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.

The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

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.

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

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.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.