Walter Bagehot: “My opinion is, that you should advise the House to vote that which would tend most to public order, and would be most…”

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.

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

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.