Walter Bagehot: “What could be more improbable--at least, for what could a pre-historic man have less given a good reason--than that some…”

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

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