Walter Bagehot: “The two have nothing to bind them together, and in matter of fact, they continually disagree.”

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.

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

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

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.