Walter Bagehot: “When the choice of a nation is really fixed on a statesman, Parliament will fix upon him too.”

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.

They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

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.