3 William Cobbett Quotes on Society

William Cobbett quotes on society

6. To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

15. Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

17. 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.