Walter Bagehot: “Even nations with long habits of discussion are intolerant enough.”

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.

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.