Walter Bagehot: “The same patronage of favoured forms, and persecution of disliked forms, are the main causes too, I believe, which…”

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

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.