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The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays

Book by Walter Bagehot · 4 quotes · Men, Political, Politics

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“Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles that those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men - by the fear that if you vote against them, you may soon yourself have no vote at all.”