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Political Quotes by Walter Bagehot
- A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
- No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to…
- Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of…
- The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
- 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…
- The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them that the mob…
- Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in…
- The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
- I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
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- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle