Business So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. Walter Bagehot 1
Opinion Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words,... Walter Bagehot 0
Opinion The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. Walter Bagehot 0