Walter Bagehot: “The dignified parts of Government are those which bring it force--which attract its motive power.”

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

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

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

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