"Under a cabinet constitution at a sudden emergency this people can choose a ruler for the occasion. It is quite possible and even likely that he would not be ruler before the occasion. The great qualities, the imperious will, the rapid energy, the eager nature fit for a great crisis are not required—are impediments—in common times. A Lord Liverpool is better in everyday politics than a Chatham—a Louis Philippe far better than a Napoleon. By the structure of the world we want, at the sudden occurrence of a grave tempest, to change the helmsman—to replace the pilot of the calm by the pilot of the storm."
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Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (1867) No. I, "The Cabinet", p. 29
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Louis Philippe I
Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848. He was proclaimed king in 1830 after Charles X was forced to abdicate. His reign, known as the July Monarchy, was the golden age for French literature and music, but he lost popularity after failures of national economy that started in 1846. He was forced to abdicate in 1848 and lived out his life in exile in Great Britain.
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