To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
Benjamin DisraeliIt is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
Benjamin DisraeliHad it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
Benjamin Disraeli