Walter Bagehot: “In old times one office of the House of Commons was to inform the sovereign what was wrong.”

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

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

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