Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
That would depend, sir, on whether I embraced your principles or your mistress.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister (Tory), Acerbic response to his political attacker who in Parliamentary debate claimed that he was so immoral that he would probably die "by hanging or of some vile disease”
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Blair was then the leader of the opposition Labor party. Major, the prime minister, did not have firm control of his own party and was whipsawed between different factions. He was ousted by his own party, not by losing an election.
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.
