Walter Bagehot: “I have said that Cabinet government is possible in England because England was a deferential country.”

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.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.