Benjamin Disraeli — "Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something…"
Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us—something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.
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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.