"Land, in England, is valuable, because we have……" — Joseph Hume
"Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot."
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22 Quotes by Joseph Hume
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Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.
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If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a…
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I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to…
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What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did,…
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Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
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There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to…
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I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed…
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I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from…
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I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches…
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Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure…
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The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest…
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Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.
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More Artisans Quotes
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I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.
— Lee Child
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human…
— Horace Mann
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Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.
— Unknown Author
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Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work,…
— Sheldon Lee Glashow
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...when you buy just two or three tons from a grower, they see the artisan work you do with their…
— Unknown Author
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These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly…
— James Madison
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Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor.…
— Remy de Gourmont
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If we could combine Starbucks spirit with the spirit of the artisan, we knew we could achieve something special.
— Kengo Kuma
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American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people.…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and…
— Peter Medawar
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My New Year's style resolution is to buy and wear more clothing that is handmade by artisans or eco-friendly.
— Lauren Bush
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