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, Political Register, Dec. 22, 1832
All is vulgar, all clumsy, all dull, all torpid inanity.
WILLIAM COBBETT, English Grammar
Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
WILLIAM COBBETT, Political Register, Dec. 22, 1832
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
WILLIAM COBBETT, letter, Feb. 10, 1804
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
WILLIAM COBBETT, Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine
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