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.

Quote by Walter Bagehot

Topics: Government Quotes, Understanding Quotes

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why...

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why...

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one -...

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one -...

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one...

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one...

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds...

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds...

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to...

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to...

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who...

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who...

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

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

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

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will...

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will...

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without...

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without...

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us...

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us...

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring...

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring...

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such,...

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such,...

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be...

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be...

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and...

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and...

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do

Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.