Walter Bagehot: “The nation had outgrown its institutions, and was cramped by them.”

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

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

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

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.