Walter Bagehot: “To keep a legislature efficient, it must have a sufficient supply of substantial business.”

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

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.

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

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.