Walter Bagehot: “In early times the quantity of government is much more important than its quality.”

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.

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

It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.