Walter Bagehot: “Both the good ideas and the bad ideas are sure to find advocates first in the press and then in Parliament.”

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.

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.

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.