They have said, "that in old times the English Court took too much of the nation's money, and spent it ill; but now, when it could be trusted to spend well, it does not take enough of the nation's money.
Bagehot discusses the historical mismanagement of royal finances, advocating for a well-funded monarchy that spends wisely.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.
But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.
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.
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