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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go...
He believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth; he has the soul of a...
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of...
Conquest is the missionary of valour, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the...
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right...
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting...
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in...
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to...
The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the...
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of...
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will....
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late...
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the...
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind...
Of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure...
The whole history of civilisation is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly...
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism --despotism during the campaign --is...
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's...