English - Author | February 3, 1826 - March 24, 1877
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
Walter Bagehot
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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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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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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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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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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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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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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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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