Benjamin Disraeli — "Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal y…"
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
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About Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
British Prime Minister who built modern Conservative populism; the only PM of Jewish heritage and a celebrated novelist before politics. Closely associated with Lord Salisbury (his Conservative successor as PM). For an intellectual contrast, see William Ewart Gladstone, four-time Liberal Prime Minister — the two alternated as PM four times — Gladstone's free-trade moralism and Disraeli's imperialist pragmatism are the founding poles of British party politics.