Benjamin Disraeli: “There never was a man who did such rash things in so circumspect a manner.”

But an hour from an uninteresting speaker would be a great infliction.

His courage and his constancy were never surpassed by man.

No series of parliamentary labours had ever produced so much influence in the country in so short a time.

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…