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Excerpt from The Mirrors of Downing Street: Some Political Reflections If I may presume to offer a word of counsel to those for whom this present edition is chiefly intended, I would beg them to be guided in their choice of leaders mainly by moral qualities, that is to say qualities of character rather than of intellect, and then to be as loyal to those chosen leaders as they should be severe in their judgment on lesser men whose interest lies in making bad blood between the captain and the rank and file. Discipline is essential to the existence of democracy: without it there can be nothing but disorder, disappointment, and defeat. The great beginning is a reasonable goal; then a choice of high-minded leaders; and then a stout and loyal heart for the long march to a more just and beautiful world. When democracy demands character in its leaders, when it feels in its blood the atlantic difference between a specious talker and a man of profound virtue, then, but not even then without loyalty, can it hope to find a happy issue out of all its afflictions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.