Walter Bagehot: “The moment, indeed, that we distinctly conceive that the House of Commons is mainly and above all things an elective…”

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.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

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