Quotes by Bagehot, Walter

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

When great questions end, little parties begin. >>

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

Quotations about War

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true en >>

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, >>

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. >>

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

Bagehot, Walter