Walter Bagehot: “No English majority dare vote for an exceedingly bad treaty; it would rather desert its own leader than ensure its own…”

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.

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