Walter Bagehot: “They were competent to decide an issue selected by the higher classes, but they were incompetent to do more.”

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

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

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.