Walter Bagehot: “In societies tyrannically customary, uncongenial minds become first cowed, then melancholy, then out of health, and at…”

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.

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

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.