William Cobbett quotes Born: 03/09/1763 Died: 00/00/1835 Country: united_kingdom

• Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. (William Cobbett) [more/more]
• It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense. (William Cobbett) [life/human/being/mind]
• Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. (William Cobbett) [happiness/mind/mind]
• 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) [press/trade/people/budget]
• It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. (William Cobbett) [reach/top]
• 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) [thing/society/men/support]
• 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) [evil/desire/desire/thing]
• 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) [system/sense of duty]
• 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) [women/sex/power/right]
• 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)
• 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)
• I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach. (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)
• Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent. (William Cobbett)
• Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. (William Cobbett)
• Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may. (William Cobbett)
• Please your eye and plague your heart. (William Cobbett)
• Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write. (William Cobbett)
• The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet. (William Cobbett)
• 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)
• To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. (William Cobbett)
• You never know what you can do till you try. (William Cobbett)

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