It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. William Cobbett More Quotes by William Cobbett More Quotes From William Cobbett Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being thought poor--it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves. William Cobbett fashionrealcountry Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. William Cobbett qualitypatiencemen A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace. William Cobbett foundationopinionreal From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it. William Cobbett agemencountry To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous. William Cobbett supportmenchildren Before I dismiss this affair of eating and drinking, let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle, if, unhappily, you have been bred up in such slavery. William Cobbett slaverycoffeetea The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom... have been thrust out of all public employment... a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place. William Cobbett employmentracebankers I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too. William Cobbett sweetfatherchildren Praise the child, and you make love to the mother. William Cobbett making-lovemotherchildren 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 medialongpeople The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth. William Cobbett richesdesiremay I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it. William Cobbett prejudicepoliticsself But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"? William Cobbett fatemonsterssilly Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body. William Cobbett ribsunited-statesbody The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour. William Cobbett libertyclassgiving Please your eye and plague your heart. William Cobbett pleaseeyeheart A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony. William Cobbett couplereligiousfood 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 sisterhoodlawsex Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs... have usurped a large part of the soil. William Cobbett menfatherson Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches. William Cobbett richespovertygiving
