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by P. J. O'rourke    ( comments )

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Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

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by Robert Atkyns    ( comments )

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We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for more

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

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by Walter Bagehot    ( comments )

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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

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by Bernadette Devlin    ( comments )

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It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

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by C.s. Lewis    ( comments )

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Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament.

Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament.

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by Thomas Carlyle    ( comments )

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Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk

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by Thomas Carlyle    ( comments )

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That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very more

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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