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Engineer Inspirational Quotes (9987)
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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.
Walter Bagehot
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
Walter Bagehot
A political country is like an American forest you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.
Walter Bagehot
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.
Walter Bagehot
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
Walter Bagehot
When great questions end, little parties begin.
Walter Bagehot
If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.
Walter Bagehot
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
Walter Bagehot
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
Walter Bagehot
A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.
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 go on still.
Walter Bagehot
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 sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
Walter Bagehot
The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created
Walter Bagehot
The purse strings tie us to our kind.
Walter Bagehot
Money is economic power.
Walter Bagehot
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot
All people are most credulous when they are most happy.
Walter Bagehot
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Walter Bagehot
The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.
Walter Bagehot
Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.
Walter Bagehot
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.
Walter Bagehot
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.
Walter Bagehot
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Walter Bagehot
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Walter Bagehot
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