Walter Bagehot: “The question we have to answer is, "The House of Lords being such, what is the use of the Lords?”

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

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.