Walter Bagehot: “We are so accustomed to submit to be ruled by elected Ministers, that we are apt to fancy all mankind would readily be…”

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

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

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.