Walter Bagehot: “All Americans, it has been said, know business; it is in the air of their country.”

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.

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

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.