Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin DisraeliEveryone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Benjamin DisraeliNo government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.
Benjamin Disraeli