90 ordspråk av Walter Bagehot

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Walter Bagehot föddes den 3 Februar 1826 och dog den 24 März 1877 - one of the most influential journalists of the mid-Victorian period.
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 No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.

 Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind

 Of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

 One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

 Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

 Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.

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

 Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

 So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign -- is indispensable.

 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.

 The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions -

 The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

 The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

 The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

 The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be


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