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Parliamentary Reform - A detailed study of parliamentary reform in Britain between 1750 and 1900.
Members of Parliament: 1750-1850 - Biographies of MPs that had an important influence on British history. Figures included range from Prime Ministers such as William Pitt and Lord Liverpool to those less well-known but extremely influential figures such as Joseph Brotherton and Michael Sadler.
Oswald Mosley - 1896-1980. British MP and founder of the British Union of Fascists. Site contains political essays, speeches and a history of the BUF and Union Movement.
Martinbell.co.uk - Information on former non-party MP and ex BBC foreign correspondent Martin Bell.
History of Parliament - An official research project to produce biographies of all MPs sitting in the House of Commons between 1386 and 1832, as well as a general history of the parliamentary process. The results may be bought on CD.
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Parliament Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason Parliament Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Parliament Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Parliament Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Parliament "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton Parliament The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Parliament Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Parliament Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi Parliament When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Parliament The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West Parliament Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Parliament Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Parliament Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Parliament If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Parliament "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign Parliament More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen Parliament When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow Parliament Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Parliament The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous Parliament "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Parliament I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Parliament
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