Parliament

(87 votes)   I would walk from here to Drogheda and back to see the man who is blockhead enough to expect anything except injustice from an English Parliament.

Daniel O'Connell
1775-1847, Irish National Leader

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(167 votes)   You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(155 votes)   You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(109 votes)   The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.

Lord Denning

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(99 votes)   Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

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(96 votes)   You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Oliver Cromwell
1599-1658, Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England

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