Parliament is a potent engine, and its enactments must always do something, but they very seldom do what the originators of these enactments meant. [Therefore most legislation] will have the effect of surrounding the industry which it touches with precautions and investigations, inspections and regulations, in which it will be slowly enveloped and stifled.


in Times March 1891

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Quotes

Parliament is a potent engine, and its enactments must always do something, but they very seldom do what the originators of these enactments meant....

Parliament is a potent engine, and its enactments must always do something, but they very seldom do what the originators of these enactments meant....

Parliament is a potent engine, and its enactments must always do something, but they very seldom do what the originators of these enactments meant....

Parliament is a potent engine, and its enactments must always do something, but they very seldom do what the originators of these enactments meant....