It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that are gone by than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide. (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury)

It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that are gone by than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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