Commons Chamber

Famous quotes containing the words commons and/or chamber:

    “[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)

    “Another day. Deliberations are recessed
    In an iron-blue chamber of that afternoon
    On which we wore things and looked well at
    A slab of business rising behind the stars.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)