Benjamin Disraeli — "If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fish…"
If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity.
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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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Comment regarding his political rival, William Gladstone.
Date: Unknown, an anecdote from his political career
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