Quote #167

The House of Commons has lifted our affairs above the mechanical sphere into the human sphere.

More from Winston Churchill

  1. The honourable gentleman should not really generate more indignation than he can conveniently contain.
  2. The Hun is either at your throat or at your feet.
  3. Variant: The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
  4. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
  5. The further back I look, the further forward I can see.
  6. The maxim 'nothing avails but perfection' may be spelt shorter: PARALYSIS.
  7. The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating, is formal conversation, the set speech, the harangues addressed to constituents, o…
  8. The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs. (attributed to a House of Commons speech of 1951)

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