Walter Bagehot: “The basest deity is a subordinate employee, and yet just now in civilised Governments it is the commonest.”

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

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.