Walter Bagehot: “We all know what it means, though it would take an essay to limit it and define it.”

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.

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 above corruption because they are the corruptors.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.