Walter Bagehot: “In excited states of the public mind they have scarcely a discretion at all; the tendency of the public perturbation…”

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

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

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.

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.