Walter Bagehot: “The most difficult of problems is how to change late foes into free friends.”

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

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.

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.