Britain Quote by Joseph Hume

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other…

— Joseph Hume

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

— Henry George

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

— Joseph Hume

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

— Joseph Hume

What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.

— Mary Elizabeth Lease

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges,…

— Will Durant

“The destruction of artisanal industries by colonial trade policies did not just impact the artisans themselves. The British monopoly of industrial production drove Indians…

— Shashi Tharoor

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import…

— David Ricardo

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

— Joseph Hume

Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal

— Phil Harding

As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value…

— Henry George

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales,…

— Richard Cobden