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«The commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity»
Author: James Mackintosh | About: Faith | Keywords: commons, inactivity, masterly
«Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.»
«It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb.»
«I can hardly keep wondering at my own folly in thinking it worthwhile to leave my books and garden, even for one day's attendance in the House of Commons.»
«A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince»
«Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.»
«Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.»
«You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.»
«I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.»
«If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.»