Walter Bagehot: “But if I could combine with 1000 other Liberals in that and other Conservative counties, we might choose a Liberal…”

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.

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

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