Walter Bagehot: “We may distinguish and define its parts; but policy is a unit and a whole.”

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.

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

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.