Walter Bagehot: “But it is in truth childish to heap formal duties of business upon a person who has of necessity so many formal duties…”

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

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

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 the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.