Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Quote

... 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.


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.