Walter Bagehot: “I own that I do not entirely sympathise with the horror of these anomalies which haunts some of our best critics.”

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

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

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.