I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.
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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
The right honorable gentleman Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented.
John Bright
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.
John Bright
The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.
John Bright
Popular applause veers with the wind.
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
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