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

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

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

The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

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.

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.