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I am for peace, retrenchment, and for reform — thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.

John Bright

I am for 'Peace, retrenchment, and reform', the watchword of the great Liberal party 30 years ago.

John Bright

Tell the merchant that he must not rely for one moment on the Home Rulers for any one thing that is wise and good, nor indeed on any political combination of Irishmen. They have never yet done anything for themselves or their country and have never yet as a party shown what ought to be done. The absence of political and economical knowledge in Ireland is remarkable, and what there is of a sensible middle class is apparently crushed or smothered by the extreme men, who are always in pursuit of some phantom and who seem not to know the substance even when they see it.

John Bright

The right honourable gentleman is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented.

John Bright