Quotes by Bagehot, Walter

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to i >>

When great questions end, little parties begin. >>

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had no >>

Quotations about Politicians and Politics

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. >>

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. >>

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come u >>

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter