Walter Bagehot Quotes

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. - Walter Bagehot

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders. - Walter Bagehot

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. - Walter Bagehot

Woman absent is woman dead. - Walter Bagehot

When great questions end, little parties begin. - Walter Bagehot

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind. - Walter Bagehot

We must not let daylight in upon the magic. - Walter Bagehot

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

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

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