William Cobbett Quotes

Most Famous William Cobbett Quotes of All Time!

We have created a collection of some of the best william-cobbett quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 William Cobbett Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

Popular Quotes Topics for You.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people, have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

You never know what you can do till you try.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

There never yet was, and never will be, a nation permanently great, consisting, for the greater part, of wretched and miserable families.

To live well, to enjoy all things that make life pleasant, is the right of every man who constantly uses his strength judiciously and lawfully.

To be without sure and safe friends in the world makes life not worth having; and whom can we be so sure of as of our children?

The taste of the times is, unhappily, to give to children something of book-learning, with a view of placing them to live, in some way or other, upon the labour of other people.

To have a dutiful family, the father's principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience.

Endless are the instances of men of bright parts and high spirit having been, by degrees, rendered powerless and despicable by their imaginary wants.

Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes.

The great security of all is to eat little and to drink nothing that intoxicates. He that eats till he is full is little better than a beast, and he that drinks till he is drunk is quite a beast.

Guys, we are trying to share Unique William Cobbett Quotes, so you will not get to read the same things again and again on our website. You can also share your favorites on Facebook or send them to a friend who loves to reading quotes.