Robert Walpole Quotes

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

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• Every member of Parliament has been sent there by Canadians, and that decision should be respected, and that member of Parliament should be respected.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Decision
  • Member
  • Parliament

• Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Control
  • Responsibility
  • Democracy

• A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Successful

• Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Imagination
  • Common Sense
  • Provided

• There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

  

  H. H. Asquith
  • House
  • Parliament
  • Illustration

• I got the impression from the government that they don't see any basic difficulties in parliament ... Parliament is is recess but people continue to work on the law.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Law
  • Government
  • Impression

• When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Wonder
  • Firsts
  • Here

• You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Canada
  • Parliament
  • Backbone

• Gains in commodities provided a positive backdrop for the Canadian dollar.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Gains
  • Provided
  • Canadian Dollar

• Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.

  

  William James
  • Religion
  • Needs
  • Firsts

• Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Blood
  • United States
  • Provided

• Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Fear
  • Provided

• Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Nations
  • Parliament

• Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Law
  • Act
  • Protection

• The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Soul
  • Word Of God
  • Provided

• Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Patience
  • Parliament
  • Foolish Talk

• Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Life is
  • Meaningless
  • Provided

• To the South African parliament: I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

  

  Helen Suzman
  • Civilization
  • White
  • Example

• I think we can use (the study) to make sure we're in balance.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Study
  • Balance
  • Sure

• I went to see Harvey again in Fiddler. Harvey's throat is getting better.

  

  Rip Taylor
  • Better
  • Getting
  • Harvey

• No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

  

  Robert Walpole
  • Parliament
  • Provided
  • Approved