Walter Bagehot: “In a casual collection of loose people the only possible free government is a democratic government.”

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.