Walter Bagehot: “I showed that at the formation of a Ministry, and during the continuance of a Ministry, a really sagacious monarch might…”

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.

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

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

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.