In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'


As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations (ed. Robson Book Ltd, 1997)

Margaret Thatcher Quotes

In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century...

In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century...

In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century...

In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century...