Walter Bagehot: “Now we are quite grown up, and can put away childish things.”

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

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.