The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.
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The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.
Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?
I understand the principles of dissent in parliament.
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised.
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