Popular applause veers with the wind.

Force is not a remedy.

Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment’s thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.

England is the Mother of Parliaments.

Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves.

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. England is the mother of Parliaments.

Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves

Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.