Walter Bagehot: “Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best…”

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

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

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