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Political discussion must move those who have to act; it must be framed in the ideas, and be consonant with the precedent, of its time, just as it must speak its language.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot argues that political discussions must resonate with the prevailing ideas and language of the time to be effective.
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They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
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.
But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.
He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.
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