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The executive Government by means of its disciplined forces, and the few invaluable members who sit and think, preserves some sort of unity.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot emphasizes the role of the executive government in maintaining unity.
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And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!
They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.
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