“The cities are everywhere in decline. Trade, industry and agriculture bend under the weight of taxation.”
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965Related quotes
“All taxation must be a tax upon industry.”
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1930/apr/16/ways-and-means#column_2939 in the House of Commons (16 April 1930)
Leader of the Liberal Party
Lewis (1950; 831-2) as cited in: Mark Figueroa. "Rethinking Caribbean agriculture, re-evaluating Arthur Lewis misunderstood perspective." (2008).
“Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.”
Joel Mokyr (2016), A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. p. 174
Source: Essays on Husbandry (1764), p. 11; Cited in: Joe Bord (2009) Science and Whig Manners: Science and Political Style in Britain, C.1790-1850.
Federal Court statement (1918)
Context: When the mariner, sailing over tropic seas, looks for relief from his weary watch, he turns his eyes toward the southern cross, burning luridly above the tempest-vexed ocean. As the midnight approaches, the southern cross begins to bend, the whirling worlds change their places, and with starry finger-points the Almighty marks the passage of time upon the dial of the universe, and though no bell may beat the glad tidings, the lookout knows that the midnight is passing and that relief and rest are close at hand. Let the people everywhere take heart of hope, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning.
