The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.
Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!
The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.
Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.
What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.
Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
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