Famous Quotes / Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot: "The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them."
Apparent | Asks | Cares | Carriages |
Cheer | Eclipsed | English | Implicitly |
Imposing | Influenced | Nation | Obeyed |
Personages | Preceded | Procession | Real |
Reason | Rulers | Secondrate | Secreted |
Spectators | Splendid | Splendor | Them |
Unconsciously | Whom |