Walter Bagehot: “We have no slaves to keep down by special terrors and independent legislation.”

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

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

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.

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