Walter Bagehot: “If he becomes unfit to govern, some one else who is fit may conspire against him.”

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

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

The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English 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.