Walter Bagehot: “Refinement is only possible when leisure is possible; and slavery first makes it possible.”

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 United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.

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