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.
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When England and America shall have braced the policy of free industry the whole fabric of monopoly the world over will totter to its fall.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
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.
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I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.
John Bright
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
It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.
John Bright
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