Walter Bagehot: “Nothing can be more politically useful than such homage, if it be skilfully used; no folly can be idler than to repel…”

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.

He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.