Walter Bagehot: “By proscribing nonconformist members for generations, and cherishing and rewarding conformist members, nonconformists…”

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 are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.

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.

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