Quotes by Bagehot, Walter

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, >>

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing >>

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind. >>

Quotations about Bureaucracy

The inventor of the Xerox machine will, I am sure, find a special plac >>

Those who can, do, those who can't teach; and those who can do neither >>

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probabl >>

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

Bagehot, Walter