Quotes by Bagehot, Walter

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing person >>

When great questions end, little parties begin. >>

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you >>

Quotations about Law and Lawyers

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcemen >>

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep >>

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep. >>

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.

Bagehot, Walter