... institutions like the House of Lords must die, like all other organic beings, when their time comes.


Letter to Alfred Austin (29 April 1888), from Paul Smith (ed.), Lord Salisbury on politics: a selection from his articles in the Quarterly Review, 1860–83 (1972), p. 39, n.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Quotes

Institutions like the House of Lords must die, like all other organic beings, when their time comes.

Institutions like the House of Lords must die, like all other organic beings, when their time comes.

Institutions like the House of Lords must die, like all other organic beings, when their time comes.

Institutions like the House of Lords must die, like all other organic beings, when their time comes.