Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury - House Quotes
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... institutions like the House of Lords must die, like all other organic beings, when their time comes.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
The agonies of a man who has to finish a difficult negotiation, and at the same time to entertain four royalties at a country house can be better imagined than described.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Dizzy intends to pursue the old game of talking Green in the House and Orange in the Lobby.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
I earnestly hope that the House of Lords will always continue to justify your confidence; that it will conscientiously and firmly fulfil the duties for which I think it is eminently fitted, and which are to represent the permanent and enduring wishes of the nation as opposed to the casual impulses which some passing victory at the polls may in some circumstances have given to the decisions of the other House.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury