Benjamin Disraeli Quote 

"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 the public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of the 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 valueable, and your freedom less complete."

by:
Benjamin Disraeli
(1804-1881) Prime Minister of England, British statesman, novelist
Source:
Speech in the House of Commons, March 31, 1850
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Disraeli as continued to be one of the most quotable UK Prime Ministers
 -- Mike, Norwalk		 
Reflects the times we live in.
 -- Anonymous		 
Obviously he is kissing his Queen's behind. Kingdoms have all had the same problems Disraeli is stating here. He apparently never heard of King John and his nemesis Robin Hood or of Lady Godiva's ride which had something to do with taxes also.
 -- Waffler, Smith, Arkansas		 
 -- Logan, Memphis, TN 
Great lets get us a dictator. Then we can have the same thing that this quote is worried about with no way to change it. At least we could blame it all on the dictator and not our choices. Wonder if he would have liked Adolph.
 -- warren, olathe		 
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