Walter Bagehot: “You cannot (consistently with plain facts) imagine enough original races to make it tenable.”

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

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.

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.

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.