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Walter Bagehot Quotes
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A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist (Walter Bagehot 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 Quotes)
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
Public opinion... requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
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