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  • A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

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    Walter Bagehot (1867). “The English Constitution”, p.237

  • Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

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    Walter Bagehot (1872). “The English Constitution ... Reprinted from the"Fortnightly Review."”, p.194

  • A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

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    Walter Bagehot (1951). “Literary Studies”
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Walter Bagehot

  • Born: February 3, 1826
  • Died: March 24, 1877
  • Occupation: Journalist
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