Walter Bagehot: “The material necessities of this age require a strong executive; a nation destitute of it cannot be clean, or healthy…”

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

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.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

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.