Occupation: British Statesman Birth: June 3, 1804 Death: April 2, 1865
I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, wil….
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, the….
I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is ….
The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated..
I hold all idea of regulating the currency to be an absurdity; the very terms of regulating the currency and managing the currency I look upon to be ….
From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security ag….
I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides..
Luck relies on chance, labor on character..
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce..
I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been as….
I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the….
You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan….
the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before..
I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they….
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out..