Walter Bagehot: “He holds his place, by the essence of the Government, with some uncertainty.”

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

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.

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

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.