Quotes by Bagehot, Walter

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to wom >>

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwelle >>

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a littl >>

Quotations about President

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal. >>

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to sta >>

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I >>

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

Bagehot, Walter