Walter Bagehot: “The Cabinet, in a word, is a board of control chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to…”

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

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

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.

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