Walter Bagehot: “A free people is indeed mostly fair, liberty practises men in a give-and-take, which is the rough essence of justice.”

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

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

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