Parliament Quotes - Page 19

• A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

  Walter Bagehot

  House, Looks, Fierce

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The House of Lords'

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• Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament.

  Milan Kundera

  Europe, Important, Toil

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• You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.

  Thomas Hutchinson

  Law, Empires, Revolution

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• This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

  Henry Seymour Conway

  People, Ignorant, Resistance

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• Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Race, Government, Wind

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.253, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It seems to me that if you wish to apply laws to us, it were only reasonable to consult us on them, and from what you have read to me about Parliament, I do not think any dragons are invited to go there

  Naomi Novik

  Thinking, Dragons, Law

  Naomi Novik (2006). “His Majesty's Dragon: A Novel of Temeraire”, p.299, Del Rey

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• A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Political, Noble, Ears

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• No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

  Robert Walpole

  Expenses, Has Beens, Approved

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• The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity is also what allows some people to transcend the setbacks and losses that come with age and to reinvent themselves again and again.

  Warren G

  Loss, People, Decision

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• There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain satisfaction in being elected... but the man who steps into the English Parliament takes his place in a pageant that has ever been filing by since the birth of English history... York or Lancaster, Protestant or Catholic, Court or Country, Roundhead or Cavalier, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, Labour or Unionist, they all fit into that long pageant that no other country in the world can show.

  Josiah Wedgwood

  Country, Men, English History

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• The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very peculiar political animal. It's not a democracy, but it's not a tyranny. It's not like the rest of the world, the rest of Europe. There is a parliament, laws have to be made, elections are made.

  Simon Schama

  War, Fate, Animal

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• May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Rest In Peace, Long, Soul

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• We should never feel like we're going too far in breaking the law, because whatever laws you break to liberate animals or to protect the environment are very insignificant compared to the laws that are broken by that parliament of whores in Washington. They are the biggest lawbreakers, the biggest destroyers, the biggest mass-murderers on this planet right now.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Law, Broken

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• Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Children, Mean

  "This #WomensEqualityDay, Remember What Your Vote Means" by Charleta B. Tavares, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2016.

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• I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Thinking, Done, Things To Do

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• The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on "official" institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.

  Bob Schaffer

  Destiny, Reality, Ukraine

  "Go Orange!". National Review Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.

  David Starkey

  Kings, Powerful, History

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• It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

  John Amery

  Government, Free Opinion, Decision

  John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”

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• But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Two, Rights, Long

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.150

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• The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

  Terry Deary

  Guy, Politician, Intention

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• When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wall, People, Broken

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