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A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

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I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.

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For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

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At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

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Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

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I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

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But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

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For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

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From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Businessman

Born: June 3rd, 1804

Died: April 2nd, 1865

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