Walter Bagehot: “They are playing a game--the game of life--with no knowledge of its rules.”

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

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 power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.

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