Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.” ~ James Anthony Froude (1818-1894) British author and historianSource: Short Studies on Great Subjects, 1872