Walter Bagehot: “They would be able to drive or send to the poll an entire labouring population.”

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

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

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

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