An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession it is by them the mob are influenced it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence it has not the ballot-box before it its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majestys Opposition that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The essence of work is concentrated energy. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
He believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth he has the soul of a martyr with the intellect of an advocate. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A man who has not read Homer is like a man who has not seen the ocean. There is a great object of which he has no idea. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism during the campaign is indispensable. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. - Walter Bagehot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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