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Walter Bagehot Quote: “The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while its efficient part, at least when in great and critical action, is decidedly simple and modern.”

51. “The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while its efficient part, at least when in great and critical action, is decidedly simple and modern.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.”

52. “What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “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.”

53. “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

Walter Bagehot Quote: “We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.”

54. “We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.”

55. “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

Walter Bagehot Quote: “Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.”

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

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created.”

57. “The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “Nations touch at their summits.”

58. “Nations touch at their summits.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.”

59. “The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “Women – one half the human race at least – care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.”

60. “Women – one half the human race at least – care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.”

61. “But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “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.”

62. “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.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “When great questions end, little parties begin.”

63. “When great questions end, little parties begin.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.”

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

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.”

65. “Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “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.”

66. “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

Walter Bagehot Quote: “The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.”

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

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.”

68. “Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.”

69. “A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “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.”

70. “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.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.”

71. “An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.”

72. “In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “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.”

73. “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

Walter Bagehot Quote: “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.”

74. “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

Walter Bagehot Quote: “The caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men against whom much is to be said, and agreed on some unknown man against whom there is nothing known, and therefore nothing to be alleged.”

75. “The caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men against whom much is to be said, and agreed on some unknown man against whom there is nothing known, and therefore nothing to be alleged.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.”

76. “It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor... Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.”

77. “You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor... Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “Custom is the first check on tyranny; that fixed routine of social life at which modern innovations chafe, and by which modern improvement is impeded, is the primitive check on base power.”

78. “Custom is the first check on tyranny; that fixed routine of social life at which modern innovations chafe, and by which modern improvement is impeded, is the primitive check on base power.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.”

79. “Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.”

— Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot Quote: “The splitting of sovereignty into many parts amounts to there being no sovereign.”

80. “The splitting of sovereignty into many parts amounts to there being no sovereign.”

— Walter Bagehot

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