A perfect Parliamentary Minister would be one who should add the animating capacity of the Duke of Newcastle to the accumulated sense, the detective instinct, and the laissez faire habit of Sir George Lewis.
Bagehot envisions an ideal Parliamentary Minister as one who combines the Duke of Newcastle's energy with Sir George Lewis's analytical skills.
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The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.
And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
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