Walter Bagehot: “Its use is not in what it says, but in those to whom it speaks.”

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

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

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

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.