Benjamin Disraeli — "When asked about belief in God, he replied that he believed what most intelligen…"
When asked about belief in God, he replied that he believed what most intelligent men believed. When asked what that was, he said, 'like most intelligent men I don't say.'
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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.