The Smallness Of Our Desires

I Cannot... Perceive Any Ground For Hoping That Any Practical Good Would, While The Funding System Exists In Its Present Extent, Result From The Adoption Of Any Of Those Projects, Which Have Professed To Have In View What Is Called Parliamentary Reform... When The Funding System, From Whatever Cause, Shall Cease To Operate Upon Civil And Political Liberty, There Will Be No Need Of Projects For Parliamentary Reform. The Parliament Will, As Far As Shall Be Necessary, Then Reform Itself.

You May Twist The Word Freedom As Long As You Please, But At Last It Comes To Quiet Enjoyment Of Your Own Property, Or It Comes To Nothing. Why Do Men Want Any Of Those Things That Are Called Political Rights And Privileges? Why Do They, For Instance, Want To Vote At Elections For Members Of Parliament? Oh! Because They Shall Then Have An Influence Over The Conduct Of Those Members. And Of What Use Is That? Oh! Then They Will Prevent The Members From Doing Wrong.

A Full Belly To The Labourer Was, In My Opinion, The Foundation Of Public Morals And The Only Source Of Real Public Peace.

A Couple Of Flitches Of Bacon Are Worth Fifty Thousand Methodist Sermons And Religious Tracts. They Are Great Softeners Of Temper And Promoters Of Domestic Harmony.

The Ancient Nobility And Gentry Of The Kingdom... Have Been Thrust Out Of All Public Employment... A Race Of Merchants, And Manufacturers And Bankers And Loan-jobbers And Contractors Have Usurped Their Place.