Walter Bagehot: “But how far are the strongest nations really the best nations? how far is excellence in war a criterion of other…”

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

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

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.