Walter Bagehot: “The managers of the contest have that greatest possible facility in using what I may call patronage--bribery.”

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.