The Anti Corn Law League - A time line and some pass notes on this influential middle class pressure group formed to promote free trade, and a template for further radical advances throughout the nineteenth century.
The Corn Laws - An entry from Victorian Web on the Corn Laws, a significant import duty on wheat and other essential foodstuffs aiming to stabilise the price.
Essay on Profits - An essay from David Ricardo on the influence of the Corn Laws on the profits from capital investment.
Extracts from Peel's Speech on Repeal of the Corn Laws, 15 May 1846 - In the early 1830s Peel had been well-known for his opposition to the repeal of the Corn Laws and in 1841 had promised not to repeal the legislation. During the course of his second ministry (1841-6) he changed his mind and by December 1845 was considering repealing the Corn Laws. In the speech from which these extracts are take, Peel justified his change of mind.
Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws - A text written in 1814 by the economist and clergyman Thomas Malthus advocating a retention of the war time prosperity for farmers by a large tax on foreign corn.
For a Repeal of the Corn Laws by Sir Robert Peel - Parliamentary Speech by the Prime Minister, Robert Peel, on the succesful motion to abolish the Corn Laws. Peel was seen as a traitor by many of his Conservative colleagues because of his volte-face on maintaining the laws.
The John Hampden Society - A society devoted to the study of seventeenth century Parliamentarian John Hampden, who became famous through resisting the Charles I's illegal Ship Money tax.
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Corn Laws Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Corn Laws
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Corn Laws I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Corn Laws
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Corn Laws "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Corn Laws
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Corn Laws
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Corn Laws The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Corn Laws
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Corn Laws "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Corn Laws
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Corn Laws Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Corn Laws
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Corn Laws "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Corn Laws
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Corn Laws The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Corn Laws
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Corn Laws "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Corn Laws
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Corn Laws Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Corn Laws
