More From Walter Bagehot
- "The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."
- "So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism – despotism during the campaign – is indispensable."
- "The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
More In Great
- "The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses."― Thomas Jefferson
- "I don’t get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there’s always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way."― Julia Roberts
- "Half a truth is often a great lie."― Benjamin Franklin