The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on … - Walter Bagehot

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Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

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.

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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

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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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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

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