Walter Bagehot: “But it also invades men--by the most bodily part of the mind--so to speak--the link between soul and body--the manner.”

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

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.

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

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