Walter Bagehot: “Cabinet government educates the nation; the Presidential does not educate it, and may corrupt it.”

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.

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

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.