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Parliament Quotes by Robert Walpole
- No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.
- The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before…
- I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both…
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- 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
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- 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