Author: William Cobbett

Quotes

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.

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.

- William Cobbett

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

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

- William Cobbett

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

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

- William Cobbett

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

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

- William Cobbett

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

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

- 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.

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.

- William Cobbett

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

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

- William Cobbett

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.

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.

- William Cobbett

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

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

- William Cobbett

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