Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Peace, War, Aggravation

• The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, War, Names

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

• The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  War, Race, Differences

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

• Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Truth, Honesty

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1865). ““Church and Queen.” Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].”, p.72

• That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Peace, War

• For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Jobs, War

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Grey de Wilton, October 3, 1873.

• If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  War, Passion, Independence

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