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William Cobbett Quotes

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.
William Cobbett

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
William Cobbett

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

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
William Cobbett

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
William Cobbett

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.
William Cobbett

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.
William Cobbett

Type:
Politician
Date of Birth:
0000-00-00
Year of Death:
1835
Nationality:
English