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«People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.»
«We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.»
Author: Joseph Paul Goebbels
(Politician)
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affair, arsenal, arsenals, bursts, even as, flock, in working order, neutrals, not neutral, parliament, parliaments, salaries, supply, The Wolf, tickets, weapons, wolf
«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»
Author: Robert Atkyns
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Parliament
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Act of Parliament, ancestors, ancient, chose, common law, consented, parliament, parliaments
«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?»
Author: Alexander Herzen
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Houses of Parliament, parliament, simulate, simulated, simulating, stand still
«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.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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advocate, advocates, agent, agents, ambassadors, assembly, Bristol, congress, Congress of, deliberative, general assembly, general interest, hostile, local, member, Member of Parliament, One Nation, parliament, parliaments, prejudices, purposes, resulting, The Ambassadors, The General
«The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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elected, election, election of, English people, enslaved, gravely, lose it, Member of Parliament, mistaken, parliament, parliaments
«We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.»
«Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Parliament
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parliament, quantities, unlimited
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