Walter Bagehot: “In a time of revolution there are but two powers, the sword and the people.”

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

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.

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.