"Nothing is so well calculated to produce a……" — William Cobbett
"Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt."
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34 Quotes by William Cobbett
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Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when…
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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
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Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought…
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The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who…
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his…
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To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot…
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The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is…
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time…
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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
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Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
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Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slop kettles!
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