Citas de William Cobbett

• You never know what you can do till you try.

  William Cobbett

  Trying, Knows, Can Do

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• It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

  William Cobbett

  Patience, Time, Life And Love

  William Cobbett (1850). “Cottage Economy: Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread, Keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry, and Rabbits, and Relative to Other Matters Deemed Useful in the Conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family : to which are Added, Instructions Relative to the Selecting, the Cutting and the Bleaching of the Plants of English Grass and Grain, for the Purpose of Making Hats and Bonnets : and Also Instructions for Erecting and Using Ice-houses, After the Virginian Manner”, p.11

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• 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

  Government, People, Tests

  William Cobbett (1933). “The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham”

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• The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

  William Cobbett

  Military, Believe, Fall

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• The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.

  William Cobbett

  Class, Giving, Liberty

  "Paper Against Gold and Glory Against Prosperity. Or, an Account of the Rise, Progress, Extent and Present State of the Funds and of the Papermoney of Great-Britain Etc".

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• You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own property, or it comes to nothing. Why do men want any of those things that are called political rights and privileges? Why do they, for instance, want to vote at elections for members of parliament? Oh! Because they shall then have an influence over the conduct of those members. And of what use is that? Oh! Then they will prevent the members from doing wrong.

  William Cobbett

  Hombres, Derechos, Largo

  William Cobbett (2012). “A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland”, p.231, TAN Books

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• Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

  William Cobbett

  Escribir, pensar

  William Cobbett (1847). “A grammar of the English language, etc”, p.192

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• Veo el consumo de té como un destructor de la salud, un debilitador de la estructura, un engendrador de afeminamiento y pereza, un libertino de la juventud y fabricante de miseria para la vejez. Así hace ese progreso miserable hacia esa muerte que encuentra diez o quince años antes de lo que la habría encontrado si hubiera hecho que su mujer preparara cerveza en vez de té.

  William Cobbett

  Drinking, Beer, Views

  "Cottage Economy". Book by William Cobbett, 1821.

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• Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.

  William Cobbett

  Wisdom, Mean, Ideas

  William Cobbett (2012). “A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland”, p.231, TAN Books

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• Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

  William Cobbett

  Perseverance, Men, Want

  William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc”, p.36

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• Nunca estimes a los hombres por sus riquezas o su posición. Respeta la bondad, encuéntrala donde puedas.

  William Cobbett

  Guerra, Hombres, Mayo

  William Cobbett (1820). “Cobbett's Political Register”, p.497

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• Ser pobre e independiente es casi un imposible.

  William Cobbett

  Wisdom, Independent, Independence

  William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc”, p.47

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• The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and bread, beer and a bed.

  William Cobbett

  Christian, Beer, Fire

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• Nada está tan bien calculado para producir un letargo en el país como un amplio sistema de impuestos y una gran deuda nacional.

  William Cobbett

  Death, Country, Taxation

  William Cobbett's letter, February 10, 1804.

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• Te desafío a que agites a alguien con el estómago lleno.

  William Cobbett

  Agitation, Stomach, Fellows

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• Otro gran mal que surge de este deseo de ser considerado rico; o más bien, del deseo de no ser considerado pobre, es la cosa destructiva que ha sido honrada con el nombre de "especulación"; pero que debería llamarse Juego.

  William Cobbett

  Gambling, Names, Evil

  "Advice to Young Men, and (Incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life (Letter 2)". Book by William Cobbett, 1829.

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• Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.

  William Cobbett

  Dance, Animal, People

  William Cobbett (2006). “Advice to Young Men”, p.33, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

  William Cobbett

  Education, Real, Boys

  William Cobbett (1817). “Cobbett's Weekly Political Register”

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• All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers. If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants.

  William Cobbett

  Writing, Views, Tyrants

  Political Register, August 14, 1819.

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• El poder que da el dinero es el de la fuerza bruta; es el poder de la cachiporra y la bayoneta.

  William Cobbett

  Giving, Bayonets, Force

  William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to young men, and, incidentally, to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life, in a series of letters”, p.51

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• But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?

  William Cobbett

  Silly, Fate, Monsters

  William Cobbett (2011). “Rural Rides (Two Volumes in One)”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.

  William Cobbett

  Religious, Couple, Food

  William Cobbett (2009). “Cottage Economy”, p.84, Applewood Books

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• Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

  William Cobbett

  Learning, Ideas, Mouths

  William Cobbett (1846). “A Grammar of the English Language: In a Series of Letters”, p.140

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• If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.

  William Cobbett

  Knives, America, People

  William Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett (1853). “Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively”, p.557

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• From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

  William Cobbett

  País, Hombres, Edad

  'Political Register' 22 December 1832

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