Walter Bagehot: “Whenever there was much to be said for the king's opinion it would have its full weight; whatever was said for the…”

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

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.

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