Walter Bagehot: “Similarly, the best institutions have a natural military advantage over bad institutions.”

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

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.

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

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.