I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over eve…

- Joseph Hume

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or…

- Joseph Hume

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and jus…

- Joseph Hume

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

- Joseph Hume

Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.

- Joseph Hume

What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the cour…

- Joseph Hume

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

- Joseph Hume

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

- Joseph Hume

Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land…

- Joseph Hume