- Benjamin 'Dizzy' Disraeli, aka Lord Beaconsfield- Disraeli: In an autocracy, the leader is the people. Europe is at the mercy of the most ruthless band of autocrats the world has yet seen. I know these dictators, these men of blood and iron, they have one weakness; they are always in a hurry. Their god is power, and its kingdom is on this Earth. They are men without humility and without hearts. The virtues we hold dear they call weaknesses, and what we love they despise. They hold themselves a race apart, divinely ordained to rule the world to the exclusion of all others. That is a form of madness that must eventually destroy the world or be destroyed, it cannot be appeased by soft words or good neighbourliness. All civilised methods of approach to international agreement are signs of weakness to these men. They recognise one argument, and one argument alone - FORCE!
- Mary Disraeli: I couldn't love you if I were married to you for a thousand years.
- Benjamin Disraeli: I couldn't stop loving you if I were married to you for all eternity!
- The Agitator: Peel! Peel!
- [spits]
- The Agitator: . Why his very smile is like the gleam on the lid of a coffin. He's the arch-humbug. He's as full of cant as any canter that ever canted in this whole canting world.
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