Walter Bagehot: “Upon these it forms that rude, rough, ruling judgment which we call public opinion; but upon other things it does not…”

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

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.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.