England Quote by Joseph Hume Download Open image “Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.” — Joseph Hume ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare England Her Imports Materials Raw material Raw materials
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea. — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Much of what we buy relies on products from the EU - purchases that British importers make in euros. — Sam Gyimah Copy Share Image
If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er!… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Leh has few of what Europeans regard as travelling necessaries. The brick tea which I purchased from a Lhassa trader was disgusting. I afterwards… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce. — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us. — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
'Downton Abbey' is my worst nightmare. I just hate that whole 'Upstairs Downstairs' thing, I think it's really lazy and it doesn't represent England,… — Tom Payne Copy Share Image
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
