John Bright Quotes & Sayings

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20 most famous John Bright quotes and sayings (politician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

John Bright Quotes
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.”
John Bright Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.”
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“Force is not a remedy.”
John Bright Quotes
“I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.”

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