Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1377 |
| AUTHOR: | Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81) |
| QUOTATION: | You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and therefore when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which, I hope, will keep it great. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The editor notes, p. 415, “this particular speech enjoys a special and superlative distinction above all its fellows: as I am authorised to state that, in Mr. Disraeli’s own opinion, it made him leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons.” |
| SUBJECTS: | Political parties |