Benjamin Disraeli: “An abused and indignant soil repudiated the ungrateful race that had exhausted and degraded its once exuberant bosom.”

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

Born a natural leader of the people, he was equal to the post.

His courage and his constancy were never surpassed by man.

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…