Walter Bagehot: “Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.”

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

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.

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

The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.