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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
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
— William Cobbett
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
You never know what you can do till you try.
— William Cobbett
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
— William Cobbett
Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
— William Cobbett
I never saw the face of Cobbett ... I should not know him if I met him in my porridge dish.
— John Adams
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
— William Cobbett
All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.
— William Cobbett
Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slop kettles!
— William Cobbett
The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.
— 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
Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
— William Cobbett
He who writes badly thinks badly
— William Cobbett
WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.
— William Cobbett
I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
— William Cobbett
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
— William Cobbett
Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.
— William Cobbett
Please your eye and plague your heart.
— William Cobbett
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
Without bread all is misery.
— William Cobbett
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.
— William Cobbett
Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.
— William Cobbett
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
— William Cobbett
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
— William Cobbett
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
— William Cobbett
