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Quotes from Chartism — Thomas Carlyle

1795–1881 Scotland

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Cash Payment the sole nexus; and there are so many things which cash will not pay!

Chartism (1840)

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Chartism (1840)

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

Chartism (1840)

O reader, to what shifts is poor Society reduced, struggling to give still some account of herself, in epochs when Cash Payment has become the sole nexus of man to men!

Chartism (1840)

a matter in regard to which if something be not done, something will do itself one day, and in a fashion that will please nobody

Chartism (1840)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Carlyle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.