Quotes by Bagehot, Walter

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military v >>

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official po >>

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

Quotations about Progress

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing effort >>

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no s >>

Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is it >>

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Bagehot, Walter