46 Quotes by John Bright

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

What 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.

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

We can fix the duties in our own tariff and on our imports, but we cannot fix the duties in the tariffs of foreign countries and on their imports.

My opinion is that the Northern States will manage somehow to muddle through.

When England and America shall have braced the policy of free industry the whole fabric of monopoly the world over will totter to its fall.

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

I have passed a terrible week. The whole seems a troubled dream. The friend of 25 years is gone and I can no more ask counsel of him or give him help.