Walter Bagehot: “The effect of any considerable change on a nation is thus an intensifying and accumulating effect.”

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

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

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!