Walter Bagehot: “Most men mostly imitate what they see, and catch the tone of what they hear, and so a settled type--a persistent…”

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.

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.

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

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.