The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.

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

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

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.

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

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.

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.

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

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.

A perfect free government is one which decides perfectly according to those votes; an imperfect, one which so decides imperfectly; a bad, one which does not so decide at all.

But the essence of our legislature may be separated from its accidents.

And so eloquent men who laugh at the party come to lead the party.

Until such a change is made the House of Commons will be defective, just as the House of Lords was defective.

I make money; that miserable public functionary only wastes money".

The trained official hates the rude, untrained public.

But it needs travelling to know that the summits ARE the same.

He used to say, "It is not the business of a Cabinet Minister to work his department.

Impelling power and restraining wisdom are as opposite as any two things, and are rarely found together.

No polity can get out of a nation more than there is in the nation.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.