Benjamin Disraeli: “Born a natural leader of the people, he was equal to the post.”

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.

Free from prejudices, his large mind sympathized with all classes of the realm.

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…

Superfluity of debate may often be inconvenient to a minister, and sometimes perhaps even distasteful to the community; but criticizing such a security for justice and liberty as a free-spoken parliament is like quarrelling with the…