Horace Walpole Quote

Everybody talks of the constitution, but all sides forget that the constitution is extremely well, and would do very well, if they would but let it alone.


letter to Horace Mann, 18–19 January 1770, in Correspondence (Yale ed.) vol. 23


Everybody talks of the constitution, but all sides forget that the constitution is extremely well, and would do very well, if they would but let it...

Everybody talks of the constitution, but all sides forget that the constitution is extremely well, and would do very well, if they would but let it...

Everybody talks of the constitution, but all sides forget that the constitution is extremely well, and would do very well, if they would but let it...

Everybody talks of the constitution, but all sides forget that the constitution is extremely well, and would do very well, if they would but let it...