Walter Bagehot: “A great and open council of considerable men cannot be placed in the middle of a society without altering that society.”

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.

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

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.