Walter Bagehot: “The higher savages, as the New Zealanders, are less uniform; they have more of the varied and compact structure of…”

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

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.