Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

Quote by Walter Bagehot

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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will...

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will...

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who...

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who...

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people...

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people...

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and...

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and...

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why...

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why...

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of...

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of...

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to...

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to...

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one...

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one...

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was...

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was...

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light...

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light...

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not...

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not...

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us...

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us...

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will...

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will...

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such,...

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such,...

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was...

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was...

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds...

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds...

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.