Walter Bagehot: “Everyone that makes an invention that benefits himself or those around him, is likely to be more comfortable himself and…”

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.

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.