William Cobbett (1763 – 1835)
English politician, agriculturist, journalist and pamphleteer, writing first in the Tory and then in the Radical cause.
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 honoured by the name of “speculation”; but which ought to be called Gambling.
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
The pattern John Bull of his century, strong as the rhinoceros, and with singular humanities and genialities shining through his thick skin.
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.