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

At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.

These anomalies, in a hundred instances, mark the old boundaries of a constitutional struggle.

The lessons are good where its primitive assumptions hold, but may be false where those assumptions fail.

I own that I do not entirely sympathise with the horror of these anomalies which haunts some of our best critics.