John Bright Quotes

• There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there is no nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia. We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.

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• England is the mother of Parliaments.

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• This regard for the liberties of Europe, this care at one time for the protestant interest, this excessive love for the balance of power, is neither more nor less than a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.

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• The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land. You may almost hear the beating of his wings.

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• I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

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• A self-made man; who worships his creator.

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• With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

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• We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years

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• The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

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• The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

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• The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

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• Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.

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• Popular applause veers with the wind.

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• It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

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• It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

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• If this phrase of the ‘balance of power’ is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

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• I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

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• Force is not a remedy.

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• Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

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• As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

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John Bright (25)

Birth:	16th November, 1811
Death:	27th March, 1889
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

About

John Bright was born in Rochdale, England. He was a British Liberal politician, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies. He is most famous for battling the Corn Laws. In partnership with Richard Cobden, he founded the Anti-Corn Law League, aimed at abolishing the Corn Laws, which raised food prices and protected landowners' interests by levying taxes on imported wheat. The Corn Laws were repealed in 1846. He sat in the House of Commons from 1843 to 1847, and 1857-1889, promoting free trade, electoral reform and religious freedom. He was almost a lone voice in opposing the Crimean War. He also opposed Gladstone's proposed Home Rule for Ireland. He coined the phrase "Mother of Parliaments."

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