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William Cobbett (March 9, 1763 - June 18, 1835) was an influential English pamphleteer, writer, and radical. Known for his critical analysis of the political and social issues of his time, Cobbett's work had a profound impact on the social and political landscape of 18th and 19th century Britain.

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Famous William Cobbett Quotes

“Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.”

People Giving Has Beens Young Spirit Natural Animal Dancing Dance Rational Amusement Moses Just Dance Animal Spirits

Book:Advice to Young Men

Source: Advice to Young Men

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

Giving Persons Liberty Class Produce Labor Tendencies Taxation May Day

Author:William Cobbett

“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.”

Giving Enough Law Sex Causes Natural Common Behalf Sisterhood

Book:Advice to Young Men, and (incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Citizen Or a Subject

Source: Advice to Young Men, and (incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Citizen Or a Subject

“Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.”

Giving Poor Lord Poverty Give Me Riches

Book:A Year's Residence in the United States of America: Treating of the Face of the Country, the Climate, the Soil... of the Expenses of Housekeeping... of the Manners and Customs of the People; And, of the Institutions of the Country...

Source: A Year's Residence in the United States of America: Treating of the Face of the Country, the Climate, the Soil... of the Expenses of Housekeeping... of the Manners and Customs of the People; And, of the Institutions of the Country...

“Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.”

Men Giving Language Understood Grammar Ingenuity Our Words

Book:A grammar of the English language, etc

Source: A grammar of the English language, etc

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

Giving Force Brutes Brute Force Bayonets

Book:Advice to young men, and, incidentally, to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life, in a series of letters

Source: Advice to young men, and, incidentally, to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life, in a series of letters