Walter Bagehot: “There are people to this day who would not permit in their house people to sit down thirteen to dinner.”

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.

It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.