Walter Bagehot: “A free government is that which the people subject to it voluntarily choose.”

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.

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