Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

However much I have been blamed for not showing more deference to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much

A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong.

I always voted at my party's call, And never thought of thinking for myself at all.

No man can serve two masters. No man can serve his people and the [party] caucus.

Party loyalty lowers the greatest of men to the petty level of the masses.

Party service does not require intelligent, independent action, and politics today stands for party fealty more than for governmental ethics

He too, liked his party, and was fond of loyal men; but he had learned at last that all loyalty must be built on a basis of self-advantage. Patriotism may exist without it, but …loyalty in politics was simply devotion to the side which a man conceives to be his side, and which he cannot leave without danger to himself.

Partisanship is culture. Loyalty to the team takes precedence over loyalty to the truth.

Thus it comes about that (with some few exceptions) we have a House of Commons composed of a number of mediocrities who are content to echo the shibboleths of their party, to vote like sheep and to respond to the crack of the party whip.

What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

The young man who is moved in any way to contemplate an entry into public life, whose creed is not in absolute inheritance from his fathers, learns first of all to understand that there are two great political organizations, with one of which he must associate himself, learning and echoing its catch-words, accepting its leadership, and steeping himself in the belief that in it are wisdom and truth while the other party is void of both. It is not everyone whose ductile mind takes him through this training, and a goodly number of up-growing men of not the worst promise for the future have to step aside.

As for life within a Legislature,— who can tell how warped and bent and twisted, and accommodated to the exigencies of party struggle become the faculties of belief?

I am voting for this war so as not to be disloyal to President Bush.

To die for faction [party] is a common evil.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

By a Party, With a Party, but for the Country.

The blind allegiance to party is killing us.

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

Let us exalt patriotism and moderate our party contentions.

There are some men to whom party success is so important that they seem willing to endanger this country.

The politician may change sides so frequently as to find himself always in the majority, but most politicians have a preference for one party to the other

Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage -- work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.