Walter Bagehot: “All clever people are eager to be under Government, and are hardly to be satisfied elsewhere.”

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.

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 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.

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.