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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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History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. – Walter Bagehot

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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. – Walter Bagehot

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Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically — while simulating a triumphant march forward — than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament? – Alexander Herzen

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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

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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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