The profession of arms is always the most honourable. - William Cobbett

A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us, not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

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.