I will not delude the people by pretending that I could take off more than seven millions and a half of taxes without replacing them by others, and not leave the nation bankrupt.
From his biography of Lord George Bentinck, Disraeli declares his commitment to fiscal prudence and honesty in public finance.
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Yet truth, after all, is the sovereign passion of mankind; nor is the writer of these pages prepared to relinquish his conviction that it is possible to combine the accuracy of the present with the impartiality of the future.
Such a tenet would sully and impugn the doctrine that is the corner-stone of our faith and hope.
It was for something deeper than this, higher and holier than even Moses could fulfil, that angels announced the Coming.
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