The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.


Preliminary memoir. The first Edinburgh reviewers (l855) Hartley Coleridge (1852) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1856) Shakespeare (ed. 1879)

Walter Bagehot Quotes

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.