Walter Bagehot: “Lastly, a sudden change of Ministers may easily cause a mischievous change of policy.”

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.

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.

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.