An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
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Walter Bagehot quotes
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea.... It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that "the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look a
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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,
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind abo
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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
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it,
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilisation; like the gentle air of a genial climate,
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