William Cobbett Quote

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.


Letter (10 February 1804).


Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.