Walter Bagehot: “In that age men do not want to have their laws adapted, but to have their laws steady.”

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

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

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.