Walter Bagehot: “Free government is self-government--a government of the people by the people.”

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

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

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.