Quote by Walter Bagehot
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. – Walter Bagehot

Other quotes by Walter Bagehot

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null. – Walter Bagehot

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Freedom
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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

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Poverty
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. Im looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest. – Al Franken

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Politics

In so much of politics youre not allowed to disagree with whats been agreed. – Iain Banks

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I guess youd call me an independent, since Ive never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. – Jackie Robinson

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In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values. – Diane Abbott

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Politics

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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. – Camille Paglia

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The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin. – Thomas Huxley

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