Benjamin Disraeli Quotes


No one will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key of history.


Context

1st Earl of Beaconsfield


Citations

Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister (Tory), Endymion, 1880

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Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
  • Born: December 21, 1804
  • Died: April 19, 1881
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Statesman, Former UK Prime Minister

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, MP, FRS, was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880. He was a member of the British Conservative Party and played a central role in the creation of the modern Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is the only British prime minister to have been of Jewish birth. He was also a novelist, publishing works of fiction even as prime minister.