John Bright
John Bright
John Bright, Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 November 1811
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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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To have two Legislative Assemblies in the United Kingdom would, in my opinion, be an intolerable mischief; and I think no sensible man can wish for two within the limits of the present United Kingdom who does not wish the United Kingdom to become two or more nations, entirely separate from each other.
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Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.
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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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In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.
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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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England is the Mother of Parliaments
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What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.
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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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The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented.
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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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A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.
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The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.
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So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.