Walter Bagehot: “You are gratifying caprice at the cost of the nation.”

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

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