The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
John BrightWell, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.
John BrightTraining and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves
John BrightIt was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.
John BrightWhat is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.
John Bright