A Quote by John Bright

We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. England is the mother of Parliaments.

John Bright

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John Bright
British - Politician
November 16, 1811 - March 27, 1889

England is the Mother of Parliaments

John Bright

Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments are, at the end of the day, the only true legitimacy.

Enrico Letta

England is so dominant within the U.K. that separate English and U.K. parliaments and governments are a recipe for weakness and instability.

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

James Otis

My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests... responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments.

Jacques Delors

In the mother of parliaments, it is not too much to ask that our politicians stand up for all our best interests.

Gina Miller

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

Benjamin Franklin

Parliaments are the great lie of our time.

Konstantin Pobedonostsev

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can.

Lester Levenson

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

Mark Twain

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

David Cameron

And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.

Terence McKenna

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

David Cameron

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated.

Barack Obama

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