Benjamin Disraeli — "The only object of a good government is to obtain the greatest happiness of the …"

"If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity."

"Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life."

"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."

"The secret history of the late distress is a lesson to all modern statesmen. Rest assured that in politics, however tremendous the effects, the causes are often as trifling."

"Power has its duties as well as its rights."