Walter Bagehot: “But its average born law-makers cannot be extraordinary.”

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

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.

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.