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John Bright (16 November 1811 – 27 March 1889) was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies.

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The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

Beast, Beasts, Committed, Slaughter, Suicide

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

Nearly, Nine, Old, School, Years

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

Being Honest, Honest, Let, Measure, Small

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.

Adullam, Cave, Everyone, Gentleman, Party, Political

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

Art, Book, Give, Giving, Prefer, Room

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.

Concession, Electors, House, Imagine, Increase, Men

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

Abroad, Angel, Beating, Hear, Land, Wings

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.

Agriculture, Extension, Great Depression, Harvests, Traders, Years

What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.

Book, Dead, Faithfulness, Know, Men, Past

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.

Catholic, Church, Minority, People, Small, United

England is the Mother of Parliaments

England, Mother, Parliament, Parliaments

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

House, Humble, Library, Opinion, Precious

As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by property, and by individuals in proportion to their property. . . A Property Tax should be an assessment upon all land and buildings, and canals and railroads, but not on property such as machinery, stock in trade, etc. The aristocracy have squeezed all they can out of the mass of the consumers, and now they lay their daring hands on those not wholly impoverished.

Assessment, Hands, Land, Revenue, Wholly

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.

Cities, Effort, Reform, Carry, Thought

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.

Ballot, Favour, Reform, Strongly, Worthy

Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenceless the men with small cottages and large families the men who must work six days every week if they are to live in anything like comfort for a week, these men want defenders; they want men to maintain their position in Parliament; they want men who will protest against any infringement of their rights.

Cottages, Large, Men, People, Poor, Rights

This regard for the liberties of Europe, this care at one time for the protestant interest, this excessive love for the balance of power, is neither more nor less than a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.

Balance, Europe, Liberty, Love, Regard, Relief

The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America. . . [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries. . . [in producing] a long habit of submission. . . [and in] enfeebl[ing] by corrupting those who should assail them.

Acted, America, Class, Corrupting, Long, Slavery

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

Constitutional, Decide, Majority, Men, Old, Special

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

Party, Reform, Watchword, Years

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