Walter Bagehot: “The nation is divided into parties, but the crown is of no party.”

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.

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

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

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