All John Bright Quotes
- Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves Best
- Force is not a remedy. Force
- I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago. 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… Accompanied
- 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… Concession
- 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… According
- 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… Ballot
- Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part. 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… Alone
- 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… Assails
- 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… All
- The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter. 80s
- 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… Agriculture
- 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… Both
- As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman. Catholic
- It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school. First Went
- 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… Granted
- Popular applause veers with the wind. Applause
- The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. Ancient
- The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. Abroad
- Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do… All
- 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… Argument