Walter Bagehot: “A Republic has insinuated itself beneath the folds of a Monarchy.”

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

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

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 nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.