Parliament of the United Kingdom Quotes

“European Parliament”

“The House of Commons are the representatives of the people.”

“We cannot hear the integrity and wisdom of Parliament questioned in this Court.”

“Sir Humphrey: Certainly not, that's why I never stood for Parliament.”

“Hogwarts gone wrong.”

“The decisions of the House of Lords are binding on me and upon all the Courts except itself.”

“If the legislature have not gone far enough, it is for them, not for us, to remedy the defect.”

“What the legislature has not expressly enacted, the Judges ought not to presume that it intended.”

“It is for the legislature to alter the law if Parliament in its wisdom thinks an alteration desirable.”

“To abolish a well-established rule of law because it is a bad rule, is the business of the legislature.”

“The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?”

“This Court is a standing Court, and the law doth adjourn it from time to time: but a Parliament is a new Court, they appear, and are always summoned by new writs.”

“Every facility ought undoubtedly to be given to all persons applying to either House of Parliament or to any Court of Justice for the redress of any alleged grievance.”

“This Court (Lords House of Parliament), which ought to be an example to all other Courts, will ever hold in the highest reverence the indulgent character of British justice.”

“I disclaim the power of legislation which is asserted to exist in this Court, and I say that, if such a right is to be created, it must be created by the Legislature properly so called.”

“There is no providence or wisdom of man, nor of any council of men that can foresee and provide for all events and variety of cases, that will or may arise upon the making of a new law.”

“The Crown used to call a Parliament annually, but there was not an annual election. These words, annuo parliamento, relate to the time of their meeting, and not their election.”

“Agnes Moorhouse: Would you want to spend your life packed in with 600 other desperate, squawking, smelly creatures, unable to breath fresh air, unable to move, unable to stretch, unable to think?”

“The causes of the multiplicity of the English laws are, the extent of the country which they govern; the commerce and refinement of its inhabitants; but above all, the liberty and property of the subject.”

“Lex Parliamenti is to be regarded as the law of the realm; but, supposing it to be a particular law, yet if a question arise determinable in the King's Bench, the King's Bench ought to determine it.— Bridgman, C.J., Binion v. Evelin (1662), Dyer, 60; Carth. 137; 1 Show. 99.”