Quotes about Joseph Hume

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they...

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Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

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Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn...

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At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result...

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Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to...

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With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man...

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What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady; and...

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We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them...

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There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the...

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The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be...

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So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience...

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Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give...

#Joseph Hume