Famous quotes containing the words commons and/or building:
“[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; which would be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)