Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Plunder
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Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."
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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
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It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
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Benjamin Disraeli
- Born: December 21, 1804
- Died: April 19, 1881
- Occupation: Former Leader of the House of Commons