Walter Bagehot: “How any free government is to exist in societies where so many bad elements are so much perturbed, I cannot imagine.”

They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.

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.

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

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.