Frases de Walter Bagehot
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Walter Bagehot fue un periodista, politólogo y economista inglés.

✵ 3. febrero 1826 – 24. marzo 1877
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Frases célebres de Walter Bagehot

“Gobierno libre es el autogobierno. Un gobierno del pueblo por el pueblo. El mejor gobierno de este tipo es lo que la gente piensa mejor.”

Fuente: N.º V, La Cámara de los Comunes, p. 159 cf. Discurso de Gettysburg.

“El mejor placer en la vida es hacer lo que la gente te dice que no puedes hacer.”

Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013 ISBN 978-60-7311-631-2.

“Bueno es carecer de vicios, pero es muy malo no tener tentaciones.”

Fuente: Israel, Ricardo. El libro de las verdades. Citas citables. Editorial RIL Editores, 2011, p. 105.

“Puedes hablar de la tiranía de Nerón y Tiberio, pero la tiranía real es la del vecino de al lado.”

Fuente: Amate Pou, Jordi. Paseando por una parte de la Historia: Antología de citas. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España, 2017. ISBN 9788417321871, p. 9.

“Las naciones tocan sus cumbres.”

Original: «Nations touch their summits».
Fuente: Freeman, Charles W. Jr. Diplomat's Dictionary. DIANE Publishing, 1994. ISBN 9780788125669, p. 263. https://books.google.es/books?id=SXFePmd2uEIC&pg=PA263&dq=Nations+touch+their+summits.+Walter+Bagehot&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHmPP3vsPgAhWCyoUKHVWABMoQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Nations%20touch%20their%20summits.%20Walter%20Bagehot&f=false
Fuente: N.º IV, La Cámara de los Lores, p. 120.

Walter Bagehot: Frases en inglés

“Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.”

Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honor sinks, where commerce long prevails.
— Oliver Goldsmith, "The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society'" http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/golds02.html (1764). This quote can be found on the Oliver Goldsmith page.
Misattributed

“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”

Fuente: Physics and Politics https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4350 (1869), Ch. 5, The Age of Discussion

“The greatest enjoyment possible to man was that which this philosophy promises its votaries—the pleasure of being always right, and always reasoning—without ever being bound to look at anything.”

Walter Bagehot libro The English Constitution

No. VII, Its Supposed Checks and Balances, p. 250
From SHAKESPEARE: THE INDIVIDUAL, quote attributed to Bagehot says: "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what other people say you cannot do."
The English Constitution (1867)

“Maternity," it has been said, "is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.”

Ch. 4, Nation Making http://books.google.com/books?id=1ANBAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Maternity+it+has+been+said+is+a+matter+of+fact+paternity+is+a+matter+of+opinion%22&pg=PA122#v=onepage
Physics and Politics https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4350 (1869)

“Free government is self-government. A government of the people by the people. The best government of this sort is that which the people think best.”

Walter Bagehot libro The English Constitution

No. V, The House of Commons, p. 159
Cf the Gettysburg Address.
The English Constitution (1867)

“The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.”

Fuente: Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/lsadm10.txt (1873), Ch. II, A General View of Lombard Street

“Behind every man's external life, which he leads in company, there is another which he leads alone, and which he carries with him apart. We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us.”

[Morgan, Forrest, Shakespeare—the Man, The works of Walter Bagehot, vol. 1, 1891, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101064786716;view=1up;seq=388, 280 of 255–302]
Shakespeare—the Man (1853)

“The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people who can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.”

[Morgan, Forrest, Shakespeare—the Man, published in the Prospective Review, July 1853, The works of Walter Bagehot, vol. 1, 1891, Hartford, Connecticut, Travelers Insurance Company, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101064786716;view=1up;seq=373, 265–266 of 255–302]
Shakespeare—the Man (1853)