"The truth is that the fall of Napoleon……" — William Cobbett
"The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary."
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34 Quotes by William Cobbett
William Cobbett has 34 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and…
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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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