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.
Benjamin Disraeli — Benjamin Disraeli Modern · British PM

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About Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

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.

Date: 1834

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