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Parliamentary Quotes by Stockwell Day
- Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.
- Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which…
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- Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. — Lord Acton
- Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is… — Walter Bagehot
- We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets… — James Buchan
- A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression or widespread… — Sebastian Haffner
- In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether.… — Ian Kershaw
- This is not the kind of country where you would feel comfortable if you were opposed to democracy, parliamentary law, independent courts… — Peter Costello
- To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is… — Vladimir Lenin
- Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking… — James Fitzjames Stephen
- Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging… — John Ibbitson
- The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of… — Karl Popper
- The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution,… — A. V. Dicey
- We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as… — Friedrich Engels