Walter Bagehot Quotes
54 Walter Bagehot quotes:
"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything"
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"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."
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"We must not let daylight in upon the magic."
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"Conquest is the missionary of valour, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world."
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"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."
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"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
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"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor."
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"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities."
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"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."
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"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."
Government Quotes
President Quotes
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"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."
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"The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions -"
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"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."
English Author Quotes
Dullness Quotes
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"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
English Author Quotes
Great Quotes
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"In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best."
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"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
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"It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."
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"A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault."
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"A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind."
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"Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world."
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