Quotes of Parliamentary - somelinesforyou

“ Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the ghts of Man. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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