John Bright quotes

" The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two side-posts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on; he takes his victims from the castle of the noble, the mansion of the wealthy, and the cottage of the poor and lowly. " # Airplane and Aviation

" I feel outside all the contending sections of the liberal party—for I am not in favour of home rule, or the creation of a Dublin parliament...I cannot consent to a measure which is so offensive to the whole protestant population of Ireland, and to the whole sentiment of the province of Ulster so far as its loyal and protestant people are concerned. I cannot agree to exclude them from the protection of the imperial parliament. ...In any case of a division, it is I suppose certain that a considerable majority of British members will oppose the bill. Thus, whilst it will have the support of the rebel members, it will be opposed by a majority from Great Britain and by a most hostile vote from all that is loyal in Ireland. The result will be, if a majority supports you it will be one composed in effect of the men who for six years past have insulted the Queen, have torn down the national flag, have declared your lord lieutenant guilty of deliberate murder, and have made the imperial parliament an assembly totally unable to manage the legislative business for which it annually assembles at Westminster. " # Death and Dying

" Popular applause veers with the wind. " # Fame # Applause # Approval

" Force is not a remedy. " # Force

" If this phrase of the balance of power is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure. " # Arms Race # Peace # Argument

" I am for peace, retrenchment, and for reform—thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party. " # Time and Time Management

" We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. England is the mother of Parliaments. " # Liberty

" The right honorable gentleman 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. " # Politicians and Politics

" Force is no remedy. " # Patience

" Had they been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. " # Complaints and Complaining