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May Quotes by Walter Bagehot
- 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,…
- 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…
- Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a…
- You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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