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Letter "P" » Parliament
«It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.»
«We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us»
Author: Robert Atkyns
| About:
Parliament
| Keywords:
Act of Parliament, ancestors, ancient, chose, common law, consented, parliament, parliaments
«A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.»
«Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Democracy,
Government,
Parliament
| Keywords:
parliament, parliaments, whores
«Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Parliament
| Keywords:
parliament, quantities, unlimited
«That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only»
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