A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.