Quotes by Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

English economist

Lived from: 1826 - 1877

Category: Business and entrepreneurs Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 3 february 1826 Died: 24 march 1877

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  • Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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  • Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.
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  • So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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  • Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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  • 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.
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  • The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
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  • The greatest mistake is the trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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  • The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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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.
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  • The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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.
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  • We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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  • What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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  • When great questions end, little parties begin.
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  • Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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  • Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
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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.
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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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