Walter Bagehot: “By the very nature of our government our executive cannot be liked and trusted as the Swiss or the American is liked and…”

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

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

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.