Walter Bagehot Quote

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)


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.