#commons

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#commons #freedom #ruin

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

#asked #came #come #commons #doing

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#difficulty #getting #government #honest #honest truth

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. ↗

— John Bright

#commons #every #fact #folly #house

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

#house #houses #maxim #old #old ways

The House of Commons is a great unwieldy body, which requires great Art and some Cordials to keep it loyal. ↗

— Henry Pelham

#body #commons #great #great art #house

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

#agencies #brussels #bureaucracies #cabinet #campaign

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

#cherish #commons #destroy #duke #england

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#common people #commonsense #compulsory #deprive #education

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#proportion #realised #sense