You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.
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As quoted in Words on Wellington (1889), by Sir William Fraser, p. 163.1st Duke of Wellington
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Their Lordships of the Upper House...are one member of the Parliament; and also that the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of this House representing the whole Commons of this Realm are also another member of the same Parliament; and her Majesty the Head; and that of these three Estates doth consist the whole body of Parliament able to make laws.
William Cecil
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
Heaven is not gained by a single bound,
But we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies;
And we mount to its summit round by round.Josiah Gilbert Holland
We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury (during that time) is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole Court of Parliament.
Henry VIII of England
The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.
Gaston Bachelard
Wellington, 1st Duke of
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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