"the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who are mystified into the notion that they are not political bondmen, by that great juggle of the ' English Constitution ' a thing of monopolies, and Church-craft, and sinecures, armorial hocus-pocus, primogeniture, and pageantry!"

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Source : Richard Cobden (2007). “Richard Cobden's German Diaries”, p.24, Walter de Gruyter

Richard Cobden

#Rights Quotes #Political Quotes #Church Quotes

“Remembrance is a form of meeting.”
“To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.”
“Please try not to be such a wiener-head.”
“Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?”
“Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple!”

Source : Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1868). “The College, the Market, and the Court: Or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and Law”, p.9
“If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.”
“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.”
“Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with -sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.”

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