Walter Bagehot: “He will lose his head--he will say what he should not.”

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

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

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