Commons Quotes
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Commons Quotes & Sayings
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Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.
— Winston Churchill
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
— Garrett Hardin
We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
— Winston S. Churchill
No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.
— Neil Kinnock
Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
— Garrett Hardin
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
— Oscar Wilde
Climate change is a global commons problem.
— Ottmar Edenhofer
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
— Winston S. Churchill
There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. Herbert
— H. H. Asquith
Word 'Classy' is not for commons. Try to be classy!
— Anamika Mishra
He was a Labour MP so I asked him if it was true the House of Commons was a form of poor relief for the otherwise unemployable...
— Robert Robinson
If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
— Tony Benn
I have always been a House of Commons man.
— John Diefenbaker
None of the threats to the global commons will be solved by building walls.
— James G. Stavridis
So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.
— Winston S. Churchill
Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.
— Clive Ponting
I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.
— Winston Churchill
The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.
— Claire Tomalin
I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.
— Charles Kennedy
I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.
— John Bercow
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
— Benjamin Disraeli
You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.
— Harold Macmillan
For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.
— John Bercow
The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers.
— Garrett Hardin
Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
— Felix Frankfurter
There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.
— Henry Channon
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
— Oscar Wilde
The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.
— James Mackintosh
It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons.
— Norman Tebbit
