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.
Walter Bagehot

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

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