Benjamin Disraeli: “But Babylon has vanished and Jerusalem remains, and what are the waters of Euphrates to the brook of Kedron!”

It is not at all difficult to conceive a mode of governing a country more expeditious than by a parliament; but where truth as well as strength is held to be an essential element of legislation, opinion must be secured an unrestricted…

His courage and his constancy were never surpassed by man.

In these days of labour, the leader of a party must be the man who does the work, and that work cannot now be accomplished without the devotion of a life.

But it was not that he merely expressed opinions upon these subjects; he came forward with details in support of his principles and policy, which it had before been believed none but a minister could command.