Walter Bagehot: “Nature disheartened in each generation the ill-fitted members of each customary group, so deprived them of their full…”

The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.

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

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

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.