We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.
My idea is bring in good people and then get out of their way.
Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law that must be consulted. This is an embankment that, once broken, gives way to a torrent of opinions.
We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.
Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.
Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.