William Cobbett Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.”

“It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.”

“Please your eye and plague your heart.”

“The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.”

“From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.”

“The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.”

“To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.”