#lords

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#dies #difficulties #encounter #established #force

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job. ↗

— John Major

#admiration #for the people #great #house #huge

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. ↗

— Karl Marx

#like #love #men #never #other

Nothing surprises me about the Lords. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#lords #me #nothing #surprises

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ↗

— John Muir

#control #creation #flower #glance #greatest

Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#became #been #england #even #forging

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#being used #case #dealing #does #end

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes. ↗

— David Ricardo

#classes #commercial #commodities #degree #demand

I've always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it's important that there are members of the House of Lords who are willing to vote for their own demise. ↗

— Jim Knight

#chamber #demise #elected #favour #house

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. ↗

— Adam Smith

#become #country #demand #even #land