Benjamin Disraeli: “The Irish peasant had to choose between starving and assassination.”

The forms of the House of Commons are the result of accumulated experience and have rarely been tampered with successfully, while on the other hand a parliamentary government is by name and nature essentially a government of discussion.

But an hour from an uninteresting speaker would be a great infliction.

Superfluity of debate may often be inconvenient to a minister, and sometimes perhaps even distasteful to the community; but criticizing such a security for justice and liberty as a free-spoken parliament is like quarrelling with the…

In these days of labour, the leader of a party must be the man who does the work, and that work cannot now be accomplished without the devotion of a life.