Walter Bagehot: “They have peculiar disadvantages in the acquisition of business knowledge, business training, and business habits, and…”

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.

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

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

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.