Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Quote

Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed... The classes that represent civilisation, the holders of accumulated capital and accumulated thought have a right to require securities to protect them from being overwhelmed by hordes who have neither knowledge to guide them nor stake in the Commonwealth to control them.


Bentley's Quarterly Review, 1, (1859), pp. 28-29.


Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed......

Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed......

Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed......

Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed......