Walter Bagehot: “Metaphors from law and metaphors from war make most of our current moral phrases, and a nice examination would easily…”

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.

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.

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

He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.