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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
William Pitt
Law
Tyranny
Power
Minds
Unlimited
Unlimited Power
Those
Apt
Corrupt
Know
Lords
Begins
Ends
Where
Who
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
Laurence Sterne
People
Some People
Books
Way
Some
Most
Learn
Lords
Brag
Accomplished
Titles
Acquaintance
Them
Then
Using
Serve
It would be wholly wrong constitutionally for the unelected House of Lords to do anything, to kill anything of a financial nature that has been through the House of Commons not once but twice.
Nigel Lawson
Nature
Financial
Once
Has-Been
Would
Would-Be
Through
Wrong
House
House Of Commons
Lords
Been
Anything
Commons
Wholly
Twice
Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?
Richard J. Daley
Government
You
Our
Our Lord
City
City Government
Betrayed
Perfection
Look
Him
Disciples
How
Lord
Lords
Denied
Going
Doubted
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Tom Stoppard
Illusion
Responsibility
Power
Subscribe
Able
Throughout
Never
House
Without
Lords
Been
Which
Ages
Prerogative
Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.
Alan Sugar
First
Member
Admit
Laws
Through
New
Look
House
Understand
How
Lords
Gets
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
Benjamin Disraeli
Time
Man
Speak
Distinct
Give
Both
Fail
House
House Of Commons
Well
Course
Styles
Lords
Very
Intend
May
Commons
Requisite
Specimen
Career
Two
We must restore faith in politics. Reform of the House of Lords is only one part of the answer, but it is a vital one.
Charles Kennedy
Politics
Faith
Must
Vital
Restore
Only
Part
House
Answer
Lords
Reform
The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.
Christopher Gadsden
Rights
Matter
Our
Address
Neither
Besides
Colonies
House
House Of Commons
Lords
Nor
Refused
Hold
Commons
Them
Receive
Nothing surprises me about the Lords.
Christopher Monckton
Me
Nothing
About
Lords
Surprises
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.
Clement Attlee
Glass
Days
Like
House
Lords
Five
Stood
Champagne
I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.
Clive Davis
Music
Great
World
Poet
Music World
Say
Out
Would
All-Around
Bruce
Bruce Springsteen
Point
Point Of View
Lords
Coming
Springsteen
America
Dylan
Them
Bob
Bob Dylan
View
Two
Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.
Herbert A. Simon
Nature
Worth
Few
Think
Ought
Our
Out
Would
Ability
Horribly
Rather
Part
Put
Individuals
Over
Along
Most
Terms
Lords
Very
Than
Get
Maybe
Being
Room
Us
Really
Stand
Billion
Unique
It has never been the case that a peerage can be extinguished, even for the lifetime of a peer, by a motion of the Lords. This does not mean that there are not effective ways of penalising errant peers.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Peer
Peers
Ways
Case
Lifetime
Never
Does
Motion
Lords
Been
Effective
Mean
Even
Extinguished
On balance, I would say that anybody who reminds our lords and masters that the computerized society is fragile... has definitely done a service to the public at large.
John Brunner
Service
Balance
Society
Our
Say
Definitely
Would
Computerized
Reminds
Masters
Lords
Done
Anybody
Public
Who
Large
Fragile
Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?
John Clayton
Faith
History
Christ
Church
Worship
About
Divine
He
New
Dead
Read
Lord
Real
Lords
Testament
New Testament
Same
Really
Whom
Jesus
Raised
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
John Muir
Power
Control
Creation
Flower
Glance
Greatest
Lords
Times
May
Which
I first heard of Ulver reading the 'Lords of Chaos' book.
Matt Skiba
Book
First
Reading
Chaos
Lords
Heard
We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.
Melvyn Bragg
Me
You
Class
People
Lose
Later
Like
House
Lords
Were
Middle
Middle Class
Working
Working-Class
Media
Now
The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs are bound to the entire agreement.
Nick Clegg
Broken
Commitment
Conservative
Result
Party
Situation
Conservative Party
Liberal
Our
Entire
Pick
Pick And Choose
Part
Bound
Clearly
Like
Democrat
Parts
Lords
Permit
Been
Contract
Reform
Where
Cannot
While
Choose
Agreement
Rebels
Now
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
Polly Toynbee
Today
Day
Spiritual
Compassion
Values
Sense
Temporal
Rise
Lords
Up
Common
Common Sense
Against
Regiment
Proclaim
Enlightenment
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
Man
Memory
Power
Situation
Difficulties
Minds
Corrupted
Only
Over
Force
Lords
His
Encounter
Dies
Established
Which
Prejudice
Fortune
Lives
It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
Good
Great
Cause
Men
Ruin
Philosophy
Rule
Having
More
Counselors
Never
Princes
Lords
Ambitious
Maxim
Common
Desire
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
Walter Bagehot
Our
Severe
Though
Critic
Admiring
Institutions
Look
House
Said
Lords
Go
Cure
Unfriendly
Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
Richard Dawkins
Sit
Bishops
House
Lords
Automatically
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