William Cobbett Quotes & Sayings
17 most famous William Cobbett quotes and sayings (politician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.”
“I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.”
“The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.”
“Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.”
“Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.”
“Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.”
“It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.”
“Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.”
“Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.”
“You never know what you can do till you try.”
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