Walter Bagehot: “The whole life of English politics is the action and reaction between the Ministry and the Parliament.”

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.