John Bright

Politician

1811-11-16

Quotes by John Bright

• I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

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• I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

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• We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

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• I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

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• Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.

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• Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Force is not a remedy.

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• He is a self-made man and worships his creator.

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