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“Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.”

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Author:Alan Sugar

“I?m not even sure I?d go into a reformed House of Lords. But let?s put it like this, the decision would have been easier had there been not even complete reform but a substantial stride.”

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Author:Neil Kinnock

“The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.”

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Author:Neil Kinnock

“Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.”

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Author:Tony Benn

“It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy between the Conservative Front Bench in this House and the inbuilt Conservative majority in the House of Lords to defeat legislation that has passed through the House of Commons... I warn the House of Lords of the consequences... it is our strong view that the House of Lords should recall that its role is not that of a wrecking chamber, but of a revising chamber. In recent weeks, it has been wrecking legislation passed by this House.”

“During the last 100 years, the House of Lords has never contributed one iota to popular liberties or popular freedom, or done anything to advance the common weal; but during that time it has protected every abuse and sheltered every privilege.”

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Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.”

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Author:David Lloyd George

“The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.”

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Author:Frank Field

“What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.”

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Author:John Boorman

“Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?”

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Book:Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle

Source: Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle

“Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.”

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Author:Charles Krauthammer

“The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.”

“Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.”

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Author:Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

“The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.”

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Book:The Public Letters of John Bright

Source: The Public Letters of John Bright

“Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.”