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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

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

The prejudice of Englishmen, in favour of their own government by king, lords and commons, arises as much or more from national pride than reason. — Thomas Paine

There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match. — Brian Clough

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there. — Oscar Wilde

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends? — John Selden

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived. — Noam Chomsky

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 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

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act. — Albert Bushnell Hart

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways. — Edward Coke

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. — Henry Channon

It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends. — John Bercow

friends of the king can no longer be grip hands with friends of the Commons. — G.A. Henty

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. Herbert — H. H. Asquith

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do. — Edward Heath

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. — Winston S. Churchill

If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics. — Tony Benn

None of the threats to the global commons will be solved by building walls. — James G. Stavridis

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates. — Clive Ponting

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

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons. — John Turner

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

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. — James Mackintosh

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. — Oscar Wilde

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. — Ken Livingstone

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place. — Charles Kennedy

But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently . — Dan Ariely

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world. — Felix Frankfurter

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

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

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

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics — Clare Short