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William Cobbett Quotes


An English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, who was born in Farnham, Surrey.
William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, who was born in Farnham, Surrey. He believed that reforming Parliament and abolishing the rotten boroughs would help to end the poverty of farm labourers, and he attacked the borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" relentlessly. He was also against the Corn Laws, a tax on imported grain. Early in his career, he was a loyalist supporter of King and Country: but later he joined and successfully publicised the radical movement which led to the Reform Bill of 1832, and to his winning the parliamentary seat of Oldham. Although he was not a Catholic, he became a fiery advocate of Catholic Emancipation in Britain.

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It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

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Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.