Walter Bagehot: “And not only does the House of Lords do its work imperfectly, but often, at least, it does it timidly.”

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

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.

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.