Walter Bagehot: “In the bare superficial theory of free institutions this is undoubtedly a defect.”

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

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

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