"The verdict of posterity will be... that he [Cobden] was the greatest political character that the pure middle class …"

"I am ever solicitous for your future prosperity, and I wish that I could convince you, as I feel convinced, that it a…"

"I have generally made it a rule to parry the inquiries and comparisons which the Americans are so apt to thrust at an…"

"My estimate of American character has improved, contrary to my expectations, by this visit...I find myself in love wi…"

"...the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuad…"

"Do not let your zeal for the cause of democracy deceive you as to the fact of the opaque ignorance in which the great…"

"Is not selfishness, or systematic plunder, or political knavery as odious as the blunders of democracy? We must choos…"

"When I go down to the manufacturing districts, I know that I shall be returning to a gloomy scene. I know that starva…"

"The world never yet beheld such a compound of jobbing, swindling, hypocrisy, and slaughter, as goes to make up the gi…"

"'Tis a great sin for man or woman To steal a goose from off a common; But Who shall plead that man's excuse Who steal…"