Walter Bagehot: “Under the compulsory form of constituency the votes of the minorities are thrown away.”

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

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

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.

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