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• 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

  Cabinets, States, Hyphens

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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• So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

  Walter Bagehot

  Fear, Long, Judgement

  Walter Bagehot (1986). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Miscellany”

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

  Walter Bagehot

  Pride, Ideas, Interesting

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.53, Lulu.com

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• Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.

  Walter Bagehot

  Self, Interest, Benevolence

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1889). “The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton”

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• Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

  Walter Bagehot

  Marriage, Race, Ministry

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Monarchy'

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• A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature a good bit, of course, but a bit only in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.

  Walter Bagehot

  Religious, Intellectual, Moral

  Walter Bagehot (1950). “Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and Thackeray (1864) The Waverley novels (1858) Charles Dickens (1858) Thomas Babington Macaulay (1856) Béranger (1857) Mr. Clough's poems (1862) Henry Crabb Robinson (1869) Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browni”

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• 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

  Military, War, Race

  Walter Bagehot (1999). “Physics and Politics, Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, Ivan R Dee

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• The purse strings tie us to our kind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Ties, Purses, Kind

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.60

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• Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

  Walter Bagehot

  Country, Intellectual, Doubt

  Walter Bagehot (1879). “Literary Studies: Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and Thackeray (1864) The Waverley novels (1858) Charles Dickens (1858) Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1856) Béranger (1857) Mr. Clough's poems (1862) Henry Crabb Robinson (1869) Wordsworth, T”

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• 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

  Country, Cutting, Tree

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.7, Lulu.com

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• We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.

  Walter Bagehot

  Science, Thinking, Ice

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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• 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

  Sleep, Men, Intellectual

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “The Works of Walter Bagehot ...”

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• The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.

  Walter Bagehot

  Hair, Greek, Lips

  Walter Bagehot (1879). “Literary studies, ed. by R.H. Hutton”

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• Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

  Walter Bagehot

  Military, War, Impact

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.75

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• 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

  Men, Definitions, Firsts

  1881 Biographical Studies,'The Character of Sir Robert Peel'.

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• The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.

  Walter Bagehot

  People, Should, Duty

  Walter Bagehot, Ruth Dudley Edwards (1993). “The best of Bagehot”

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• The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it, and a great accident for a moment may almost destroy it.

  Walter Bagehot

  Hurt, Men, Essence

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

  Walter Bagehot

  Phrases, Majesty, England

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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• Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles that those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men - by the fear that if you vote against them, you may soon yourself have no vote at all.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Political, Principles

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.103, Lulu.com

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• The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

  Walter Bagehot

  People, Cynical, Stupidity

  Walter Bagehot (1974). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: The political essays”

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• The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

  Walter Bagehot

  Reflection, Doe, Melancholy

  'Physics and Politics' (1872) 'The Age of Discussion'

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• Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

  Walter Bagehot

  Wise, Lying, Philosophy

  Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1855). “The National Review”, p.46

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• I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

  Walter Bagehot

  Block, Worry, Political

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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.

  Walter Bagehot

  Government, Political, Excellence

  Walter Bagehot, Norman St. John-Stevas (1959). “Walter Bagehot: A Study of His Life and Thought, Together with a Selection from His Political Writings”, London : Eyre & Spottiswoode

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• A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Politics, Opinion

  'Biographical Studies' (1881) 'The Character of Sir Robert Peel'

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