An aristocratic statesman was choked with emotion as he reflected on Britain’s creative social mobility.

Benjamin Disraeli did not make a promising start to his Parliamentary career - but he did start with a promise.

Edmund Burke told fellow MPs that the only way to unite the peoples of the Empire was for London to set them an enviable example.

Good government is not about enforcing uniform order, but about maximising liberty among a particular people.

A young man from the Italian city on the Adige River demonstrates that class has nothing to do with wealth.

The future hero of Waterloo dealt with political ambush as comfortably as he dealt with the military kind.