Fifty Years of Progress: And a New Fiscal Policy

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1904 - 111 sivua
 

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Sivu 80 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Sivu 33 - I confess that on the general subject my views have in the course of twenty years undergone a great alteration. I used to be of opinion that corn was an exception to the general rules of political economy; but observation and experience have convinced me that we ought to abstain from all interference with the supply of food.
Sivu 33 - The struggle to make bread scarce and dear, when it is clear that part at least of the additional price goes to increase rent, is a struggle deeply injurious to an aristocracy which (this quarrel once removed) is strong in property, strong in the construction of our legislature, strong in opinion, strong in ancient associations, and the memory of immortal services.
Sivu 39 - To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their , stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous i to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of \ mankind.
Sivu 38 - I say that there is not the slightest chance that in any reasonable time this country, or the Parliament of this country, would adopt so one-sided an agreement.
Sivu 47 - Britons, hold your own! IV Sharers of our glorious past, Brothers, must we part at last ? Shall we not thro' good and ill Cleave to one another still ? Britain's myriad voices call, 'Sons, be welded each and all, Into one imperial whole, One with Britain, heart and soul! One life, one flag, one fleet, one Throne ! Britons, hold your own!
Sivu 15 - Judged by all available tests, both the total wealth and the diffused well-being of the country are greater than they have ever been. We are not only rich and prosperous in appearance, but also, I believe, in reality. I can find no evidence that we are 'living on our capital', though in some respects we may be investing it badly.
Sivu 83 - The more carefully we examine the history of the past, the more reason shall we find to dissent from those who imagine that our age has been fruitful of new social evils. The truth is that the evils are, with scarcely an exception, old. That which is new is the intelligence which discerns and the humanity which remedies them.
Sivu 34 - It would certainly involve a reduction in their productiye value ; the same amount of money would have a smaller purchasing power. It would mean more than this, for it would raise the price of every article produced in the United Kingdom, and it would indubitably bring about the loss of that gigantic export trade which the industry and energy of the country, working under conditions of absolute freedom, have been able to create.
Sivu 63 - The owners of property - those who are interested in the existing state of things, the men who have privileges to maintain - would be glad to entrap you from the right path by raising the cry of fair trade...

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