#parliament

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. ↗

— John Donne

#compose #determine #differences #doors #families

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#challenge #failed #judicial #judicial activism #meet

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#election #english #free #members #only

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. ↗

— Norman Tebbit

#direct #mislead #must #parliament #possible

May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace. ↗

— Yoweri Museveni

#may #member #milton #parliament #peace

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself. ↗

— Franz von Papen

#conceivable #gain #government #itself #majority

I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates. ↗

— Peter Slipper

#committed #how #i #i am #improve

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#expenses #fortune #good #good fortune #had

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#humility #kitchen #kitchen-table #parliament #philosophical

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. ↗

— Lord Acton

#discussion #faith #good #good faith #government