Walter Bagehot: “President-making is already a trade in America, and constituency-making would, under the voluntary plan, be a trade…”

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

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

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.