That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only
Thomas Carlyle
We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us
Robert Atkyns
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
Walter Bagehot
