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20 quotes by John Bright

John Bright (16 November 1811 – 27 March 1889), Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, 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...
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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... →

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I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact... →

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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... →

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Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and... →

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I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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Force is not a remedy.

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

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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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