Quotes of John Bright - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- John Bright

“ England is the mother of parliaments. ”

- John Bright

“ England is the mother of parliaments. ”

- John Bright

“ 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. ”

- John Bright

“ 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. ”

- John Bright

“ Force is not a remedy. ”

- John Bright

“ The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter. ”

- John Bright

“ 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. ”

- John Bright

“ 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. ”

- John Bright

“ 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. ”

- John Bright

“ I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform, — thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party. ”

- John Bright

“ When England and America shall have braced the policy of free industry the whole fabric of monopoly the world over will totter to its fall. ”

- John Bright

“ The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter. ”

- John Bright

“ England is the mother of parliaments. ”

- John Bright

“ Popular applause veers with the wind. ”

- John Bright

“ Popular applause veers with the wind. ”

- John Bright

“ Force is not a remedy. ”

- John Bright

“ I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform, — thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party. ”

- John Bright

“ 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. ”

- John Bright

“ 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. ”

- John Bright

“ 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. ”

- John Bright

“ Force is not a remedy. ”

- John Bright

“ 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. ”

- John Bright

“ Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people. ”

- John Bright

“ 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. ”

- John Bright

“ Force is not a remedy. ”

- John Bright

“ 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. ”

- John Bright

“ Popular applause veers with the wind. ”

- John Bright

“ I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform, — thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party. ”

- John Bright

“ I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform, — thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party. ”

- John Bright
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