79 Quotes by William Cobbett

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

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

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

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

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

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.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.