Christopher (Donut)

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My idea of government is this,—that we want to be governed by law and not by caprice, and that we must have a legislature to make our laws. If I thought that Parliament as at present established made the laws badly, I would desire a change; but I doubt whether we shall have them better from any change in Parliament which Reform will give us." "Of course not," said Mrs. Low. "But we shall have a lot of beggars put on horseback, and we all know where they ride to."
Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
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