All hereditary monarchies were a matter of luck: so are alphabetical monarchies.

Can you find a deep philosophical meaning in the difference between the Stuarts and the Hanoverians?
Believe me, I will undertake to find a deep philosophical meaning in the contrast between the dark tragedy of the A's, and the solid success of the B's." "And you risk it ?" asked the other.

"Though the man may be a tyrant or a cynic or a criminal." "We risk it," answered Barker, with a perfect placidity.

"Suppose he is a tyrant--he is still a check on a hundred tyrants.

Suppose he is a cynic, it is to his interest to govern well.