state-who

Updated: June 10, 2025

I do not mean those fine gentlemen or those vulgar adventurers who, in this age of quackery, may sail into Parliament by hoisting for the nonce the false colours of the movement; but I mean that honest and considerable party, too considerable, I fear, for their happiness and the safety of the State-who have a definite object which they distinctly avow I mean those thoughtful and enthusiastic men who study their unstamped press, and ponder over a millennium of operative amelioration.

Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli - Sketches