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William Cobbett

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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.


— William Cobbett


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Please your eye and plague your heart.


— William Cobbett


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The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.


— William Cobbett


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The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.


— William Cobbett


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You never know what you can do till you try.


— William Cobbett


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Did you know about William Cobbett?

While not a Catholic Cobbett at this time also took up the cause of Catholic Emancipation. 1834. On his release a dinner in London attended by 600 people was given in his honour presided over by Sir Francis Burdett who like Cobbett was a strong voice for parliamentary reform.

Through the seeming contradictions in Cobbett's life his opposition to authority stayed constant. He was also against the Corn Laws a tax on imported grain. Early in his career he was a loyalist supporter of King and Country: but later he joined and successfully publicised the radical movement which led to the Reform Bill of 1832 and to his winning the parliamentary seat of Oldham.

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