Walter Bagehot: “It is not really tested till it comes to be worked by statesmen and among a people neither of whom are guided by a…”

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

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.

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