Benjamin Disraeli — "I deny that a people can govern itself. Self-government is a contradiction in te…"
I deny that a people can govern itself. Self-government is a contradiction in terms. Whatever form a government assumes, power must be exercised by a minority of numbers.
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British Prime Minister who built modern Conservative populism; the only PM of Jewish heritage and a celebrated novelist before politics.
Closely associated with
Lord Salisbury (his Conservative successor as PM).
For an intellectual contrast, see
William Ewart Gladstone, four-time Liberal Prime Minister — the two alternated as PM four times — Gladstone's free-trade moralism and Disraeli's imperialist pragmatism are the founding poles of British party politics.
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From a writing, expressing his anti-democratic views.