John Bright
John Bright
John Bright, Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 November 1811
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My opinion is that the Northern States will manage somehow to muddle through.
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I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.
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If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
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The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented.
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A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.
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Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.
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Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.
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The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.
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As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.
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In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.
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The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.
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Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.
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With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.
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I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.