"To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless."

“We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury (during that time) is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole Court of Parliament.”

Source : 1543 Address to a deputation from the House of Commons, 31 Mar.

“Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.”

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“I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.”

“We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in my own country.”

“My house is the red earth . . . .”

“Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”

“I am going to die someday and I know where I am going.”

“I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.”

Source : "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.