Business So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. Walter Bagehot 12
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 13
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 11
