Walter Bagehot: “But originality in war does, and slave-owning nations, having time to think, are likely to be more shrewd in policy, and…”

It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.

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

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.