No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man. (Walter Bagehot)

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.

Walter Bagehot

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