Walter Bagehot: “While the House of Commons is what it is, a good revising, regulating and retarding House would be a benefit of great…”

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

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

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.