Walter Bagehot: “The truth is that the propensity of man to imitate what is before him is one of the strongest parts of his nature.”

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

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

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.