British history Quote by Felix Frankfurter Download Open image “Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.” — Felix Frankfurter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare British history History House House of commons Men Resolute Save the world Thirty World World history
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take… — Ellen Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Commons People takes a look at the day-to-day lives of our MPs, examining what motivates them, who inspires them, what they do to relax,… — Tony Russell Copy Share Image
If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader. — George Sarton Copy Share Image
“For when people do not keep watch over the commons, it is destroyed. It results, then, that they fall into civil faction, compelling one… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I can hardly keep wondering at my own folly in thinking it worthwhile to leave my books and garden, even for one day's attendance… — William Wyndam Grenville Copy Share Image
Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not,… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“The period of which I write was an overshadowed one in British history, and especially in the history of the northern provinces. War was… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable, loving relationship… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for to his way… — Russell A. Peck Copy Share Image
