Walter Bagehot: “A principal advantage of the House of Lords in the present age indeed consists in its thus acting as a reservoir of…”

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.

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

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

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