Walter Bagehot: “Nothing could be so conclusive against the American Constitution, as a Constitution, as that incident.”

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

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

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.