Benjamin Disraeli — "Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were b…"
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
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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.
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Reply to a taunt by Daniel O'Connell in the House of Commons.