Commons Quotes

94 quotes by 75 authors

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. — Winston Churchill
There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. — Henry Channon
I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the… — John Joseph Griffin
In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and… — Bartholomew Roberts
At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is now for sale.… — Maude Barlow
One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs by-everyone else: a… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every single day, that… — Jeremy Rifkin
Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to… — Willie Nelson
When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon… — Helen McCrory
The Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty could be implemented is approval… — Douglas Alexander
I have always been a House of Commons man. — John Diefenbaker
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other… — Patrick Henry
Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence… — Charles Babbage
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… — William Blake
I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one "owns" water. It… — Marq de Villiers
In effective, sustained citizen action, people learn the skills of public life with which to act effectively. "Commons," or the common wealth-the public goods that… — Harry Boyte
If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to… — Lawrence Lessig
But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in… — Nigel Farage
It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at… — Margaret Thatcher

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