Walter Bagehot: “What breaks the human race up into fragments so unlike one another, and yet each in its interior so monotonous?”

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

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

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

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.