Walter Bagehot: “But in free nations, the votes so weighed or so counted must decide.”

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.

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

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

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.