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 military analogies
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.
daughter wife political
Whatever expenditure is sanctioned even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish the ministry must find the money. Accordingly, they have the strongest motive to oppose extra outlay.... The ministry is (so to speak) the breadwinner of the political family, and has to meet the cost of philanthropy and glory; just as the head of a family has to pay for the charities of his wife and the toilette of his daughters.
kind obstruction greater
Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.
summit nations
Nations touch at their summits.
pride ideas interesting
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
motivational credit gone
If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.
party littles ends
When great questions end, little parties begin.
military war race
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.
time wind law
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.
sorry real political
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
sacrifice giving political
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
magic daylight
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
progress poison late
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
adventure banking caution
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.