Walter Bagehot: “There is a third idolatry from which that of rank preserves us, and perhaps it is the worst of any--that of office.”

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

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.