Walter Bagehot: “He forced on a premature Tory Government, which was as unsuccessful as all wise people perceived that it must be.”

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

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

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

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.