Quote

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Benjamin Disraeli

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Benjamin Disraeli
Age: 76 †
Born: 1804
Born: December 21
Died: 1881
Died: April 19
Biographer
Former Leader Of The House Of Commons
Novelist
Politician
Writer
London
England
1st Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin
Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Earl of Beaconsfield
Benjamin
Earl of Beaconsfield
Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden Disraeli
Dizzy
Class
Community
Plunder
Protection
Taxes
Advantage

More quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Image
Never argue. In society nothing must be give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
He was distinguished for ignorance for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Nationality is the miracle of political independence race is the principle of physical analogy.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Nurture your mind with great thoughts
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli
Image
Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
Benjamin Disraeli