You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when Gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at that scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.


Speech in the House of Commons (30 August 1848).


You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party...

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party...

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party...

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party...