Walter Bagehot: “Until such a change is made the House of Commons will be defective, just as the House of Lords was defective.”

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.

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

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