Walter Bagehot: “The worst of these superstitions is that they are easy to make and hard to destroy.”

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

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 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.