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 weather because there is too much rain or too much sunshine.
From a biography of Lord George Bentinck, this passage defends the value of parliamentary debate as a safeguard for justice and liberty, despite its occasional inconveniences.
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