If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.

Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

There must be always wine and fellowship or we are truly lost.

Does life teach us anything more, I wondered, than not to cry over all there is to cry about?

We're not going to think about what's happened in the past.

I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.

Activity is contagious.

[Barack Obama and Susan Rice] simply do not want any hearings on Benghazi, and they wouldn't be able to avoid it if she's up there as secretary of state.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night