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. John Bright Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago. John Bright Read Quote
It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people. John Bright Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives. John Bright Read Quote
The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter. John Bright Read Quote
It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school. John Bright Read Quote
