Parliament is a potent engine, and its enactments must always do something, but they very seldom do what the originators of these enactments meant. (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury)

Parliament is a potent engine, and its enactments must always do something, but they very seldom do what the originators of these enactments meant.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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