Walter Bagehot: “A voluntary constituency will nearly always be a despotic constituency.”

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.

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