Walter Bagehot: “The conflict of nations is at first a main force in the improvement of nations.”

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

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 whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.