Walter Bagehot: “To set out the arguments required to determine political action with such force and effect that they really should…”

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.

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

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

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.