Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.

-Burke, Edmund
  Speech to Bristol voters.

If you recognize anyone, it does not mean that you like him.We all, for instance, recognize the honourable Member for Ebbw Vale.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Of Ernest Bevin, in a House of Commons debate on1 Julon British recognition of communist China.

Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well adjusted when mum stays home and looks after the children. But that person is dadöa finding of limited use to backlash publicists.

-Faludi, Susan
  Backlash (UK edn), ch.2,'Man Shortages and Barren Wombs'.

I was born†with ready-made parents and a sister and brother who had already begun their store of experience, inaccessible to me except through their language and the record, always slightly different, of our mother and father, and as each member of the family wasborn, each,ina sensewithmemories onloan, began to supply the individual furnishings of each Was-land, each Is-land, and the hopes and dreams of the Future.

-Frame,Janet Paterson also known as Jean PatersonFrame
  To the Is-land, ch.1,'In the Second Place'.

A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

-Kennan, George Frost
Of the feeling of being viewed as a pragmatist. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The Wise Men (1986).

So then he said that he used to be a member of the choir himself, so who was heto cast the first rock at a girl like I.

-Loos, Anita
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, ch.5.

What characterizes a member of a minority group isthat he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

-Mailer, Norman Kingsley
  Cannibals and Christians, 'A Speech  At Berkeley on Vietnam Day'.

Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.

-Marx, Groucho originally Julius Henry Marx
  Recalled in his autobiography, Groucho and Me (1959), ch.26.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.

-Mill,John Stuart
  On Liberty.

Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on: but†a wicked race of deceivers†took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely formintoathousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled bodyof Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb, still as they could find them.We have not yet found them all†nor ever shall do, till her Master's second coming; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.

-Milton,John
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

When you see how in this happy country the lowest and poorest member of society takes an interest in all public affairs; when you see how high and low, rich and poor, are all willing to declare their feelings and convictions; when you see howa carter, a common sailor, a beggar is still a man, nay, even more, an Englishmanöthen, believe me, you find yourself very differently affected fromtheexperienceyoufeelwhenstaring atoursoldiers drilling in Berlin.

-Moritz, Karl Philipp
  Letter to a friend after observing a London by-election.

Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?

-Thomas,John Parnell
^57  Stock question to those called before the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities.