Walter Bagehot: “He will not state his own best arguments effectively and incisively when he knows that the king would not like to hear…”

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

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.