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The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
A cabinet is a combining committee, - a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
The sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
The caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men against whom much is to be said, and agreed on some unknown man against whom there is nothing known, and therefore nothing to be alleged (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
Free government is self-government. A government of the people by the people. The best government of this sort is that which the people think best (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
The greatest enjoyment possible to man was that which this philosophy promises its votaries-the pleasure of being always right, and always reasoning-without ever being bound to look at anything (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? And is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept? (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
The name 'London banker' had especially a charmed value. He was supposed to represent, and often did represent, a certain union of pecuniary sagacity and educated refinement which was scarcely to be found in any other part of society (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
Our royalty is to be reverenced, and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it.... Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilisation; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious (Walter Bagehot 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 Quotes)
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
Conquest is the missionary of valour, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
The sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man (Walter Bagehot 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 economised by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
The whole history of civilisation is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business (Walter Bagehot 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 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 Quotes)
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind (Walter Bagehot Quotes)
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 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 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)