Walter Bagehot: “The President has the principal anomaly of a Parliamentary government without having its corrective.”

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.

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

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.