John Bright Quotes

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• Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves
• Force is not a remedy.
• I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.
• 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…
• 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…
• As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.
• It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.
• 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…
• Popular applause veers with the wind.
• The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.
• The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

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