Excess of local self-assertion makes a colonist an Imperialist.

A colonial Imperialist is one who raises colonial troops, equips a colonial squadron, claims a Federal Parliament sending its measures to the Throne instead of to the Colonial Office, and, being finally brought by this means into insoluble conflict with the insular British Imperialist, "cuts the painter" and breaks up the Empire.

Excess of insularity makes a Briton an Imperialist.

Government presents only one problem: the discovery of a trustworthy anthropometric method.

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

Democratic republics can no more dispense with national idols than monarchies with public functionaries.

The flunkeyism propagated by the throne is the price we pay for its political convenience.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

The Court is the servant's hall of the sovereign.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. When the process is interrupted by adversity at a critical age, as in the case of Charles II, the subject becomes sane and never completely recovers his kingliness.