Walter Bagehot: “The one great vice of Parliamentary government in an adult political nation, is the caprice of Parliament in the choice…”

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

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.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.