Walter Bagehot: “A good horse likes to feel the rider's bit; and a great deliberative assembly likes to feel that it is under worthy…”

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

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.

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.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.