Walter Bagehot: “The strongest light on the great causes which have formed and are forming nations is thrown by the smaller causes which…”

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.

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.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

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