Quotes by William Cobbett

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

#William Cobbett

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

#William Cobbett

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

#William Cobbett

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's...

#William Cobbett

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the...

#William Cobbett

You never know what you can do till you try.

#William Cobbett

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed,...

#William Cobbett

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

#Impossibility

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

#Labor, #Taxation

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but...

#Communication, #Language

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

#Perseverance