Walter Bagehot: “The Premier should not be appointed for a fixed time, but during good behaviour or the pleasure of Parliament.”

It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

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.