Walter Bagehot: “The qualities which fit a man for marked eminence, in a deliberative assembly, are not hereditary, and are not coupled…”

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

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.

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.

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