Walter Bagehot: “The small size and slight strength of early free states made them always liable to easy destruction.”

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.

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

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

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.