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Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

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Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

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I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

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Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.

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The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

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It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

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As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

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It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

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I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

~John Bright

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: November 16th, 1811

Died: March 27th, 1889

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