Walter Bagehot: “The House of Commons lives in a state of perpetual potential choice; at any moment it can choose a ruler and dismiss a…”

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.

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.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

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.