Whatever expenditure is sanctioned—even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish—the ministry must find the money. Accordingly, they have th… - Walter Bagehot

Nobody will understand parliamentary government who fancies it an easy thing, a natural thing, a thing not needing explanation.

Whatever may be the defects of Gibbon's history, none can deny him a proud precision and a style in marching order.

The owners of savings not finding, in adequate quantities, their usual kind of investments, rush into anything that promises speciously, and when they find that these specious investments can be disposed of at a high profit, they rush into them more and more. The first taste is for high interest, but that taste soon becomes secondary. There is a second appetite for large gains to be made by selling the principal which is to yield the interest. So long as such sales can be effected the mania continues; when it ceases to be possible to effect them, ruin begins.