Important Quotations - Britain

1. British Parliament can do everything but cannot make a man a woman and a woman a man – Dr. Lome.


2. “Conventions are obeyed because of political difficulties which follows if they are not” – Dr. Jennings.


3. “ Conventions clothes the dry bones of law with flesh and make the legal constitution work and keep it abreast of changing social needs and political ideas” – Ogg and Zink.


4. “Cabinet is the most important piece of mechanism in the structure of the British Government” – Munro.


5. “ PM is the shining moon among the lesser stars” – William Vernon Hercourt.


6. “PM is the key stone of the cabinet arch” – Sir John Marley.


7. “The British PM knows the leader of the opposition better than he does his own wife” – George Bernard Shaw.


8. ‘Cabinet is the keystone of the political arch” – Ramsay Muir


9. “The Cabinet is the steering wheel of the ship of the State” – Ramsay Muir.


10. “The Cabinet is a hyphen that joins, the buckle that binds the executive and legislative department together “ – Begehot.


11. “ The British constitution is a child of wisdom and of chance” – Munro


12. “The English constitution is a living organism. It is always growing with a view to meeting the necessities of the people. It is not a pudding made out of recipe” – Ogg.


13. “Conventions are unwritten maxims of the constitution” – J.S.Mill.


14. “Conventions are customs of the constitution” – Mr. Anson.


15. “Conventions do not exist for their own sake; they exist because there are good reasons for them” – Prof. Jennings.


16. “The Government of U.K. is in ultimate theory an absolute monarchy, in form a constitutional limited monarchy and in actual character a Democratic Republic” – Ogg


17. “The opposition is an integral and indispensable part of our working constitution” – Quinton Hogg.


18. ‘King can do no wrong” – Gladstone H.A.S. 2007


19. “The British cabinet is a wheel within Wheels” – Ramsay.


20. “The leader of opposition is the alternative PM” – Jennings.


21. “Cabinet is the child of Parliament but it leads the mother” – H.J. Laski.


22. “Second Reading is the time when the battle between friends and foes really begins” – Ogg & Zink.


23. ‘Parliament can do everything that is not naturally impossible” - Blackstone