Walter Bagehot: “But, as we now see, when founded it is a likely nation to last.”

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.

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.