Walter Bagehot: “Each House can stop all legislation, and yet some legislation may be necessary.”

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.

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

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.