England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Copy Share Image
We were asked to host the Pan African Parliament and we agreed to this. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament. — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
That's my upbringing. Try, if it doesn't work out, try again. It was the same thing with Parliament. — Sam Gyimah Copy Share Image
I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law. — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
I want to make all Europe and America know it – I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“There seemed to be no one in a position of power, from the Vatican to Wall Street, from Parliament to Scotland Yard… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What is so attractive about Uganda for missionaries is that they have free rein. They can go anywhere they please - schools,… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
I think the whole way that Parliament works in Westminster needs a damn good shake up and I want to be part… — Heidi Allen Copy Share Image
When I was pregnant during my time in Parliament, I was frequently asked by the media how I would manage being an… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
“What is trust? It is when there is no objection in the 'parliament' (comprised of mind, intellect, chit and ego) that is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with… — Ibrahim Rugova Copy Share Image
Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
From the woman who musters the courage to ask her husband to wear a condom, counter to cultural pressures, to the woman… — Purnima Mane Copy Share Image
Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred… — John Edward Redmond Copy Share Image
The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country. — Theresa May Copy Share Image