Quote #171

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs. (attributed to a House of Commons speech of 1951)

More from Winston Churchill

  1. The maxim 'nothing avails but perfection' may be spelt shorter: PARALYSIS.
  2. The price of greatness is responsibility.
  3. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
  4. The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience.
  5. The Hun is either at your throat or at your feet.
  6. There, but for the grace of God, goes God.
  7. The House of Commons has lifted our affairs above the mechanical sphere into the human sphere.
  8. There's less to him than meets the eye.

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