Walter Bagehot: “Errors are of various kinds; but the constitution of the House of Lords only guards against a single error--that of too…”

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.