The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
Benjamin DisraeliIt is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
Benjamin DisraeliThe right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
Benjamin Disraeli