Quotes by Walter Bagehot | LBMG Cultural Archive

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"So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable."

DIRECTORY: War

"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."

DIRECTORY: Success

"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."

DIRECTORY: Nature

"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."

DIRECTORY: History

"The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."

DIRECTORY: History

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

DIRECTORY: Great

"Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison."

DIRECTORY: Food

"A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life."

DIRECTORY: Family

"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."

DIRECTORY: Death

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