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Parliament Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- 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…
- [It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the…
- It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but…
- Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the…
- Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments
More Parliament Quotes
- A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. — Walter Bagehot
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot
- In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently… — Dave Barry
- I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament. — Tony Blair
- Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash… — James Buchan
- I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in… — John Dickinson
- The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply… — Bob Brown
- 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
- If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen? — Richard Henry Lee
- Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,… — Hermann Goring
- Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold. — Jay Weatherill