Civilization Quote by Walter Bagehot

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

— Walter Bagehot

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right…

— Walter Bagehot

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

— Walter Bagehot

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

— Walter Bagehot

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look…

— Walter Bagehot

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

— Walter Bagehot

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

— Walter Bagehot

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

— Walter Bagehot

Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to…

— Walter Bagehot

Life is a school of probability.

— Walter Bagehot

When great questions end, little parties begin.

— Walter Bagehot

The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden…

— Walter Bagehot