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

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

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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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Pen Names: Peter Porcupine Dick Retort

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I say...upon this point, what <small>JUDGE BLACKSTONE</small> says; and that is, that the right to resist oppression always exists, but that those who compose the nation at any given time must be left to judge for themselves when oppression has arrived at a pitch to justify the exercise of such right.

Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs...have usurped a large part of the soil.

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