Walter Bagehot: “Thus a desultory and incalculable policy may follow from a rapid change of Ministers.”

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.

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

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.

There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.