We want one man at the head of our State, not because he is brilliant or virtuous, but because he is one man and not a chattering crowd.

To avoid the possible chance of hereditary diseases or such things, we have abandoned hereditary monarchy.

The King of England is chosen like a juryman upon an official rotation list.

Beyond that the whole system is quietly despotic, and we have not found it raise a murmur." "Do you really mean," asked the President, incredulously, "that you choose any ordinary man that comes to hand and make him despot--that you trust to the chance of some alphabetical list...." "And why not ?" cried Barker.

"Did not half the historical nations trust to the chance of the eldest sons of eldest sons, and did not half of them get on tolerably well?
To have a perfect system is impossible; to have a system is indispensable.