Skip to content

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.

— William Cobbett

Another quote →

More quotes by William Cobbett

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.

The profession of arms is always the most honourable.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine (1796)

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

All that I can boast of in my birth, is, that I was born in Old England.

Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine (1796)

All William Cobbett quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: William Cobbett (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.