Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehotwas a British journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, and literature...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth3 February 1826
religious people essentials
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.
men public-opinion influence
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.
banking credit facts
Every banker knows that if he has to prove he is worthy of credit, in fact his credit is gone.
mother women wife
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
government presidential waiting
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.
simple short-notice banking
The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.
stupidity consistency quality
What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.
hair greek lips
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.
people should duty
The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.
essence littles way
The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.
summit nations
Nations touch at their summits.
men parliament
One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.
men definitions firsts
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.
majesty england phrases
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.