Walter Bagehot: “What are the counterweights which overpower these merits?”

The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

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

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.