Walter Bagehot: “As far as the individual goes, neither his goods nor his existence were protected at all.”

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

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

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

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.