Walter Bagehot: “The English offices have never, since they were made, been arranged with any reference to one another; or rather they…”

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

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

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.