Walter Bagehot: “War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as…”

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

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

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.