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In reply to your letter I have to remark that members who sit below…
Quote byLord Randolph Churchill · 1849–1895
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Stafford Northcote (9 March 1883), quoted in Winston Churchill, Lord Randolph Churchill, Vol. I (1906), p. 236.
English (original)
In reply to your letter I have to remark that members who sit below the gangway have always acted in the House of Commons with a very considerable degree of independence of the recognised and constituted chiefs of either party, nor can I (who owe nothing to anyone and depend on nobody) in any way or at any time depart from that well-established and highly respectable tradition.
— Lord Randolph Churchill
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