Walter Bagehot: “A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions.”

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.

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.