Walter Bagehot: “And I hope that in fact this is true, for according to me, it proves that the hereditary barbaric impulse is decaying…”

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

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.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

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.