Walter Bagehot: “The English people, possibly even above other free nations, is fair.”

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.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.

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