Walter Bagehot: “A legislative chamber is greedy and covetous; it acquires as much, it concedes as little as possible.”

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

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

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.