Britain Quote by Thomas Jefferson

One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what…

— Bernard de Mandeville

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

— William E. Gladstone

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

— Thomas Hobbes

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom,…

— Benjamin Franklin

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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

“There are, I believe, some who still deny that England is governed by an oligarchy. It is quite enough for me to know that…

— G.K. Chesterton

British democratic values are embedded in the primacy of parliament.

— Gina Miller

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics

— Clare Short

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in…

— Charles Kennedy