#commons

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Oscar Wilde

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I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels. ↗

— William Hague

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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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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

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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors. ↗

— Jack Cade

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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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