Walter Bagehot: “Either men had no law at all, and lived in confused tribes, hardly hanging together, or they had to obtain a fixed law…”

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

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

It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.