Walter Bagehot: “Guilt to us is an individual taint consequent on choice and cleaving to the chooser.”

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.

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

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.