Walter Bagehot: “The best government of this sort is that which the people think best.”

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.