Walter Bagehot: “There is no worse trade than agitation at this time.”

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

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

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