Quotes by Walter Bagehot

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

#Writers

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official...

#Government

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible...

#Government

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

#Government

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it...

#Government

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

#Books

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

#Books

Money is economic power.

#Money

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

#Drink

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

#Stupidity

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

#Opinions, #Pain

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

#Belief, #Judgement