[The Irish] hate our order, our civilization, our enterprising industry, our pure religion. This wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain and superstitious race have no sympathy with the English character. Their ideal of human felicity is an alternation of clannish broils and coarse idolatry. Their history describes an unbroken circle of bigotry and blood.
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"Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others."
"A precedent embalms a principle."
"The most fatal error possible in politics is that of ignoring the spirit of the age."
"To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them."
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
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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