Believe me, the sane and enduring democracy is founded on the fact that all men are equally idiotic.

Why should we not choose out of them one as much as another.

All that we want for Government is a man not criminal and insane, who can rapidly look over some petitions and sign some proclamations.

To think what time was wasted in arguing about the House of Lords, Tories saying it ought to be preserved because it was clever, and Radicals saying it ought to be destroyed because it was stupid, and all the time no one saw that it was right because it was stupid, because that chance mob of ordinary men thrown there by accident of blood, were a great democratic protest against the Lower House, against the eternal insolence of the aristocracy of talents.

We have established now in England, the thing towards which all systems have dimly groped, the dull popular despotism without illusions.