Walter Bagehot: “But in the present English world such a House of Lords would soon lose all influence.”

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.

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

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

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.