There should be on great occasions a sense of crowd and urgency. There should be a sense of the importance of much that is said, and a sense that great matters are being decided, there and then by the House... It has a collective personality which enjoys the regard of the public, and which imposes itself upon the conduct not only of individual Members but of parties.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense…

The Times is speechless and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are con…

No problem exists between the army and the president and it is not necessary to create one artificially.

The politicians pontificate and manoeuvre with eloquent manifestos and pronouncements saying little about the challenges we must confront.