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If the whole official class change when a new party goes out or comes in, a good official system is impossible.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “If the whole official class change when a new party goes out or comes in, a good official system is impossible.”
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Bagehot discusses the challenges of maintaining a stable official system amidst political party changes.
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They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!
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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