"The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in……" — James Mackintosh

More Commons Quotes

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• 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… — John Joseph Griffin
• In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and… — Bartholomew Roberts
• At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm.… — 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… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely… — Jeremy Rifkin
• Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and… — Willie Nelson
• When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning,… — Helen McCrory
• The Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty… — Douglas Alexander
• I have always been a House of Commons man. — John Diefenbaker

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