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John Bright

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

– John Bright

John Bright

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

– John Bright

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

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.

– John Bright

John Bright

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

– John Bright

John Bright

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

John Bright

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

– John Bright

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

John Bright

A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.

– John Bright

John Bright

Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment’s thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.

– John Bright

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

John Bright

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.

– John Bright

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