“But what is Whiggery? A leveling, rancorous, rational sort of mind That never looked out of the eye of a saint Or out of drunkard’s eye. William Butler Yeats
“The constitutional Presidency—as events so apparently disparate as the Indochina War and the Watergate affair showed—has become the imperial Presidency.Arthur M. Schlesinger (Jr.)
“Work is done by those [employees] who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.Laurence J. Peter
“The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, had all the moral grandeur of a bill of lading.Richard Hofstadter
“The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.Henry Adams
“He [William Gladstone] speaks to me as if I was a public meeting.Alexandrina Victoria (Queen Victoria)