Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Class, Community, Protection

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

• Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Community, May, Dignity

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5014, Delphi Classics

• I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Class, Community, Quality

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.157, London : H. Colburn

• Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Rights, Views

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, May 14, 1850.

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