Walter Bagehot Quotes & Quotations

Walter Bagehot Quotes

» Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

» A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

» So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign -- is indispensable.

» Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

» An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

» 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.

» 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.

» It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

» One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

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

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