
“England can never be ruined except by a parliament.”
Famous sayings and their authors: a collection of historical sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin, by Edward Latham, Sonnenschein, 1906.
Speech at Birmingham, (18 January 1865)
1860s
Context: We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. England is the mother of Parliaments.
“England can never be ruined except by a parliament.”
Famous sayings and their authors: a collection of historical sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin, by Edward Latham, Sonnenschein, 1906.
"Rossa's Recollections 1838 to 1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary", p. 145-6
Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution [Eighth Edition, 1915] (LibertyClassics, 1982), pp. 3-4.
Speech given at a ‘monster’ meeting held at Drogheda, June, 1843.
Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, The Parliament of England, 1559-1581 (1986)
2 Raym. Rep. 954.
Ashby v. White (1703)