| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5155 |
| QUOTATION: | In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), British economist, critic. Physics and Politics, ch. 2, sct. 2 (1872). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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