Walter Bagehot: “The masses of Englishmen are not fit for an elective government; if they knew how near they were to it, they would be…”

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

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

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.