As to politics, we were like the rest of the country people in England; that is to say, we neither knew nor thought any thing about the matter. - William Cobbett
" "As to politics, we were like the rest of the country people in England; that is to say, we neither knew nor thought any thing about the matter.
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About William Cobbett
William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English politician, agriculturist, journalist and pamphleteer, writing first in the Tory and then in the Radical cause.
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Peter Porcupine
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Dick Retort
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I have a rooted hatred to this police establishment; that I hate it, because it is of foreign growth, and because it is French; that I hate it because it really tears up the government; that good-natured government, that gentle, that confiding, that neighbourly and friendly government, under which I was born, and under which my forefathers lived.
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