Quote by Walter Bagehot
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said tha

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. – Walter Bagehot

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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. – Walter Bagehot

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A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behooves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper. – John Pym

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You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. – Benjamin Disraeli

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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 OConnell

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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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