"I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly……" — John Bright
"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 that you are a member of the House of Commons."
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22 Quotes by John Bright
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Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves
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Force is not a remedy.
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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 franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of…
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The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men…
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A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the…
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With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform…
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Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.
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Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care…
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Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is…
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The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s.…
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We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our…
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More Assails Quotes
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The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we…
— William James
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No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its…
— Seneca the Younger
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The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the…
— Bernard Lazare
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No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
— Arthur Schnitzler
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Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
— Ovid
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his…
— Alexander Pope
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The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
— Seneca the Younger
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A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable
— Roger Scruton
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The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of…
— Havelock Ellis
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By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve…
— Winston Churchill
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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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