Walter Bagehot: “A complex sea of forces and passions troubles men in life and action, which in the calmer region of art are hardly to be…”

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

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

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