Walter Bagehot: “Macaulay justly said that many an army has prospered under a bad commander, but no army has ever prospered under a…”

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

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.

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.