Walter Bagehot: “The small size and slight strength of early free states made them always liable to easy destruction.”

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

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

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