(1804 - 1881)
Statesman, novelist, and two-term prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli in 1824 unwisely speculated on a South American mining company and only emerged from debt in middle age. When he was made prime minister in 1868, he remarked to a friend, “I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.”
Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1870More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880